We Can Learn To Suppress Our Feelings

A Good Mother Is Protective But Not Over-protective. She's Patient, She's Affectionate, She's Playful, But Above All She Is Supportive.

I Thought My Life Was Mapped Out. Research, Living In The Forest, Teaching And Writing. But In '86 I Went To A Conference And Realised The Chimpanzees Were Disappearing. I Had Worldwide Recognition And A Gift Of Communication. I Had To Use Them.

Surely It Should Be A Matter Of Moral Responsibility That We Humans, Different From Other Animals Mainly By Virtue Of Our More Highly Developed Intellect And, With It, Our Greater Capacity For Understanding And Compassion, Ensure That Medical Progress Slowly Detaches Its Roots From The Manure Of Non-human Animal Suffering And Despair.

It's Easy To Become Hopeless. So People Must Have Hope: The Human Brain, The Resilience Of Nature, The Energy Of Young People And The Sort Of Inspiration That You See From So Many Hundreds Of People Who Tackle Tasks That Are Impossible And Never Give Up And Succeed.

The Chimps' Way Of Aggression Is Quick And Brutal. I Compare Them To Gang Attacks.