As Thy Days, So Shall Thy Strength

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.

Is It Not Possible That The Chimpanzees Are Responding To Some Feeling Like Awe? A Feeling Generated By The Mystery Of Water; Water That Seems Alive, Always Rushing Past Yet Never Going, Always The Same Yet Ever Different. Was It Perhaps Similar Feelings Of Awe That Gave Rise To The First Animistic Religions, The Worship Of The Elements And The Mysteries Of Nature Over Which There Was No Control? Only When Our Prehistoric Ancestors Developed Language Would It Have Been Possible To Discuss Such Internal Feelings And Create A Shared Religion.

Without The Support Of Local People, You Might As Well Give Up Because You Can Make All The Noise You Like, You Can Demarcate A National Park, But If The People Outside Want To Go Creeping Into A Forest You Really Can't Stop Them. They've Got To Get A Benefit.

Chimps Are Far Too Much Human To Be My Favorite Animal.

Be Assured That Our Individual Actions, Collectively, Make A Huge Difference.