It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

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

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

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.