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

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.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.

I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing.