Jane Goodall

It's very encouraging.

But the kids say, Dr. Jane, do you really have hope for the future?

You travel, you see all these horrible things happening.

Firstly, the human brain.

I don't need to say anything about that.

Now that we know what the problems are around the world, human brains like yours are rising to solve those problems.

And we've talked a lot about that.

Secondly, the resilience of nature.

We can destroy a river and we can bring it back to life.

We can see a whole area desolated and it can be brought back to bloom again with time or a little help.

And thirdly, the indomitable human spirit.

We are surrounded by the most amazing people who do things that seem to be absolutely impossible.

Nelson Mandela.

I take a little piece of limestone from Robben Island prison where he labored for 27 years and came out with so little bitterness he could lead his people from the horror of apartheid without a bloodbath.

Even after the 11th of September and I was in New York and I felt the fear.

Nevertheless, there was so much human courage, so much love and so much compassion.

And then as I went around the country after that and felt the fear, the fear that was leading to people feeling they couldn't worry about the environment anymore in case they seemed not to be patriotic, and I was trying to encourage them, somebody came up with a little quotation from Mahatma Gandhi.

If you look back through human history, you see that every evil regime has been overcome by good.

And just after that, a woman brought me this little bell.

And I want to end on this note.