Some People Actually Do Not Like Animals

I Wanted To Talk To The Animals Like Dr. Dolittle.

Well, In Some Ways We're Not Successful At All. We're Destroying Our Home. That's Not A Bit Successful.

Chimpanzees Have Given Me So Much. The Long Hours Spent With Them In The Forest Have Enriched My Life Beyond Measure. What I Have Learned From Them Has Shaped My Understanding Of Human Behavior, Of Our Place In Nature.

Words Can Enhance Experience, But They Can Also Take So Much Away. We See An Insect And At Once We Abstract Certain Characteristics And Classify It - A Fly. And In That Very Cognitive Exercise, Part Of The Wonder Is Gone. Once We Have Labeled The Things Around Us We Do Not Bother To Look At Them So Carefully. Words Are Part Of Our Rational Selves, And To Abandon Them For A While Is To Give Freer Reign To Our Intuitive Selves.

Every Stage Of My Life Set The Scene For The Next, And At Each Point All I Had To Do Was Say "yes" And Not Think Too Much About The Consequences.