Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.