The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.

Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.