My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

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

....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States.

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

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