I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

The awful thing is we don't respect each other.

You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees.