The Impact of Environmental Neglect: "Yeah. I mean, you kind of remind me there of the spaceship analogy where the Earth, it's a bit like a spaceship flying through the universe, and we're all these passengers on the spaceship, and all the red lights are flashing. Water, oxygen, waste, biodiversity loss. The lights are all flashing and we're just hurling through space, actually not taking any notice whatsoever of these flashing lights. And, well, actually, what does this mean for humans if we carry on like this? And I've spent 20 years working alongside indigenous people in the Amazon, and I spend time with them where they have so little, but they're always laughing and they're always happy. It's very, very rare to see anybody depressed. And when I come back to the UK and I hear about the amount of depression and suicide, teenage suicides, and I look at these two realities where I've had 1ft in each reality, and the difference, it's just incredible. And it just reminds me over and over again that money does not buy happiness."

The Rise of Fascism and Climate Denial: "I think it is true, sadly. It seems to be where we're going and it seems to be getting worse."

The Importance of Biodiversity: "Are we better or worse off as humans? Is that okay for us to be without other species because of our need to have tidiness and lawns that we're not prepared to give pieces of land over?"

The Importance of Protecting Existing Forests: "And one of my greatest passions, or what drives my work at the moment, is looking for ways to protect the forest that's already standing."

Ancient Trees and Environmental Destruction: "Most U trees in most churchyards are over 2000 years old because they were originally pagan sites and the church built to squash the pagan religion. They built their churches where it was already a place of worship, which is why that you find ancient use there. Most of them have been carbon dated over 2000. In fact, there's a little tree just up the road here in Cold Wartham in West Sussex, and that tree was carbon dated at 3200 years old. One of the oldest trees in the country. But yeah, many of the trees are over 2000. So the fact that we are still cutting down the redwoods, these ancient redwoods in America, again, over 2000 years old, they say between 1% and 3% are left and they're still cutting them down. What I witness in the Amazon, these giant trees, anybody that watched avatar will remember the great tree, which is based on the Amazonian sabre tree."

Deforestation and Consumer Awareness: "People don't know when they go in to buy something, they don't know that what they're buying is causing destruction in the Amazon. We've got to start becoming really aware and pressurising these big businesses to do the right thing."

The Power of Community Gardens: "The benefits of going along and finding a community garden is that, hey, all of a sudden there's all these other people. So you get a social life, you get to grow some food, you actually start to make a positive difference within a group of people locally to you, there are so many benefits for actually doing the right thing, but it's a bit like we have to lead the people to show them what's possible."

The Need for Grassroots Change: "If we wait for the governments to do anything, then we're going to be waiting way too long."

The Environmental Impact of Vaping: "You need to have these huge, great big mining realities going on, causing vast amounts of contamination, so that we can go and buy something without thinking what the materials are it's made from."

The Power of Connection: "As nature communicates through the underground mycelial network which connects every tree in the forest, we need to start doing the same as humans. We need to start connecting a lot more so that we can all work together and amplify each other's voices and concerns. And that way it feels like we will have a much better chance."