I Think I'd Like To Be Remembered

I Think I'd Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Really Helped People To Have A Little Humility And Realize That We Are Part Of The Animal Kingdom Not Separated From It.

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.

Without The Heart To Ground It And Open It To Who We Really Can Be As Human Beings, The Brain Is A Very Dangerous Machine. A Machine That Is Saying: We've Got To Have Economic Growth; We've Got To Have Unending Economic Growth, Otherwise Societies Will Collapse. And Yet There Should Be Something Saying: Wait A Minute, This Isn't Going To Work.

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.

In Tanzania, The Chimps Are Isolated In A Very Tiny Patch Of Forest. I Flew Over It 13 Years Ago And Realized That, Basically, All The Trees Had Gone, That People All Around The Park Are Struggling To Survive. It Became Very Clear That There Was No Way To Protect The Chimps While The People Were In This Dire Circumstance.