Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

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

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.