If you were to meet Benki and ask him, "Why are you doing this? Why are you putting yourself at risk? Why are you making yourself vulnerable to what is often a hostile world?" he would tell you, as he told me, "I asked myself," he said, "What did my grandparents and my great-grandparents do to protect the forest for me? And what am I doing?"
Si uno fuese a ver a Benki y le preguntara: "¿por qué haces esto? ¿por qué te arriesgas? ¿por qué te expones a lo que a menudo es un mundo hostil?" Él les diría, como me dijo a mí: "Me pregunté a mí mismo ¿qué hicieron mis abuelos y bisabuelos para proteger el bosque para mí? y,¿qué estoy haciendo yo?"