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“As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.”

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The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own…

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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

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Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I…

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I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the…

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From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments…

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We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people…

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Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

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We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could…

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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of…

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I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

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Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

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It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of…

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