We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.