00:00And I'm an obstinate kind of person, and the more I get hit, the more it's like one of those Russian dolls.
00:06I say, I'm not going to let you defeat me.
00:23You know, we can look around the world today and see what's happening,
00:26see some of these figures who've reared up and they're harming the environment and harming society and risking war.
00:33And we can't actually go and fight them, but we can grow around them,
00:38grow a strong base of young people in our Roots & Shoots program,
00:42growing up who will take their places, who will have different values, who will respect the environment.
00:48One of the things we try to do, particularly with the younger children in school,
00:52is to make sure either that they can get out into nature, not Africa or places like that,
00:58unless they're in Africa, but just into some park or botanical gardens.
01:04And even if we can't do that, because sometimes it's really difficult in very poor areas to get children out,
01:13but we can bring nature into the classroom.
01:16If they don't actually get out there, they're never going to appreciate it.
01:22You started off with that quote, only if we understand can we care, and if we care will we help,
01:27only if we help should all be saved.
01:30And so any way we can to get young children out into nature, any way we can.
01:37And so it's like nature, everything is interconnected,
01:42and they're linked with each other around the globe,
01:45and they're beginning to understand the color of your skin, your culture, what you eat,
01:50it doesn't really matter because inside we have the same human heart,
01:54our blood is the same, our tears are the same, we are a family.
01:58And if we can't stop this fighting, this terrible, terrible fighting that's going on now,
02:04in so many parts of the world, what future for you talk about your grandchildren?
02:11So it's not just the animals we're losing out on right now, it's our future in so many ways.
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