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I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.
Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.
The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.
Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.
To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.
If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.
I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.
Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise.
Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.
Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.
The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
We learn the social norms of our society and modify our behaviour accordingly.
I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.
Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.
There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.
I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.
The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.
I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.
The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.
The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.
I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".
If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.
The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.
I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.
Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.
When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.
And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.