I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do.

You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.