Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.

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

My favorite animals are dogs.

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.

When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money.

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.