Paul Rosolie

Without that book, there'd be no Jungle Keepers.

Without Jungle Keepers, we wouldn't be saving the river.

We wouldn't be talking right now.

It's like you pull Jane out of the story and the whole thing collapses.

She had done this amazingly heroic thing of just nodding in my direction and changing my whole life and giving me the power to protect the thing that I love.

And then I went and fucked it all up by trying to be a Discovery Channel star.

taught you about the value and the preciousness of of giving somebody your full attention do you know what i'm talking about i do my assumption when i handed her that envelope was that she's a living legend she's 80 something years old she's traveling 300 days a year she's never going to look at this nor should she i was like you know it's just a shot in the dark you just got to shoot your shot and then she did

And so now being at this point where we're running this major organization and there's thousands of kids all over the world messaging me going, how do I find adventure?

How do I figure out what I love?

How do I help the environment?

I mean, some of them go, how do I get your job?

And I'm like, kid, it ain't a job.

But that sort of grace to be at the highest level and still realize that now your job is to drop a ladder for the kids coming behind you.

And that I think is such a tremendously powerful thing.

And I've seen people that do the opposite, that reach a really high level and then they think they're hot as shit.

But true class, true wisdom to me is that if you have the incredible luck of doing something innovative, whether it's an achievement as a musician or a filmmaker or a business leader or a scientist or an inspiration like Jane Goodall,

then your job is to inspire the next generation.

And so what I try to do is every time I'm traveling, I try to go through the hundreds of messages.

And there was one, it was really cute.

This girl goes, you know, I'm a girl from Ireland and you're never going to read this because you get so many messages, but I'm working to protect this local, you know, patch of forest in Ireland and we're about to do this.