No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.