Paul Rosolie

large amounts of time in the wilderness, especially somewhere as remote and fundamental as the Western Amazon, have a different perspective on it.

Because I think that when you're born in it, you don't necessarily...

have the framework to appreciate how far we've come.

You go, yeah, I got on the train today.

You know, I checked my phone, I FaceTimed my mom and I, and you're like, this is all normal.

And it's like, we found a way to take things out of the ground and mix them together into magic devices that can do anything.

And,

It's mind blowing.

I mean, when I grew up,

You know, my parents, being dyslexic, I couldn't read for a very long time.

And so my parents read to us every night, which was amazing considering how hard they were working.

But they'd find the time to give us, you know, an hour of reading every night, whether it was Lord of the Rings or Sherlock Holmes or Jane Goodall and whatever.

So I grew up with Jane being this figurehead of conservation and of adventure and sort of a living historical figure, this legendary person.

And so then one time, right around the time that I've been going to the jungle for a few years,

I got to go see Jane speak.

I think it was at NYU and, you know, sitting in the crowd, watched her completely amazed.

And I had at the time, my cousins had been telling me that I should write down my stories of stories of taking care of an anteater and stories of catching anacondas.

And they're like, right, you know, this, these are such good stories.

And so I'd been writing them down.

And I just remember after the talk, um,