Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.