I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

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

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

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