Wildlife advocate and photographer Joan Root lived an extraordinary life in Africa until her murder in 2006.  Her riveting biography, WILDFLOWER, by Mark Seal, captures a disappearing world and is definitely worth a read.  Along with Georgia O"Keeffe and Izak Dineson, Joan Root has unequivocally won a place in my pantheon of heroes.  She wrote this in one of her journals:

"Responsibility is a position.  An attitude towards events.  You can either take responsibility or you can feel victimized by the world.  Your choice of whether to play the victim or take the responsibility will determine whose power grows-yours or someone else/s.  If you take the position of victim, you lose power.  If you choose responsibility, you have power then, to do something about what's happening-to choose your next step.  It's all about attitude."