Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
One thing you cannot control is nature.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.
There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.