‘We work differently. We work with our arms using machetes. We use food from the earth, bananas, pawpaw, manioc, sweet potato, pupunha, and other fruits like acai, uriti and nuts - all that’s there. We don’t eat like you, there is no oil or pepper. The food is natural and we can’t destroy the taste. We eat how we want. We can’t use a lot of salt because it destroys our health. Yanomami women get up early and make the food, then they go to the gardens to collect manioc to make manioc bread. Men hunt. The children play and learn as nature teaches us.’

‘If we can’t respect the right of the last tribes living in isolation on the planet to decide their own fate, then how are we different from the conquistadors of 500 years ago, whom we so roundly condemn for their violence and greed?’

‘If the next generation waits here, they will learn drinking, smoking and gambling. All the wrong things.’