The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way.

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.