The Least I Can Do Is Speak

I Always Loved Animals. And When I Was Ten, I Decided I Had To Go To Africa And Live With Animals And Write Books About Them.

My Mission Is To Create A World Where We Can Live In Harmony With Nature. And Can I Do That Alone? No. So There Is A Whole Army Of Youth That Can Do It. So I Suppose My Mission Is To Reach As Many Of Those Young People As I Can Through My Own Efforts.

Researchers Find It Very Necessary To Keep Blinkers On. They Don't Want To Admit That The Animals They Are Working With Have Feelings. They Don't Want To Admit That They Might Have Minds And Personalities Because That Would Make It Quite Difficult For Them To Do What They Do; So We Find That Within The Lab Communities There Is A Very Strong Resistance Among The Researchers To Admitting That Animals Have Minds, Personalities And Feelings.

I've Learned That If You Want People To Join In Any Kind Of Conservation Effort, You Have To Help Them To Care With Their Hearts, Not Just Their Heads.

The Cheapest And Most Efficient Way Of Slowing Down Global Warming Is To Protect And Restore The Forests, Particularly The Tropical Forests