Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.
How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
You aren’t going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.
Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.
Mainly because as women’s education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place – or not to bother.
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
When I go back to Gombe it’s to be in that timeless world where it’s soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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.
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That’s key, and that underlies everything else.