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

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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

If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.

For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

The awful thing is we don't respect each other.