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?"

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

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.

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.