Here We Are, The Most Clever Species

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.

I Don't Have Any Idea Of Who Or What God Is. But I Do Believe In Some Great Spiritual Power. I Feel It Particularly When I’m Out In Nature. It’s Just Something That's Bigger And Stronger Than What I Am Or What Anybody Is. I Feel It. And It's Enough For Me.

Every Individual Matters. Every Individual Has A Role To Play. Every Individual Makes A Difference.

When I Go Back To Gombe It's To Be In That Timeless World Where It's Soft And Where Life Is Entwined And You Actually See The Pattern Of Nature. I Always Feel This Great Spiritual Power Which I Believe Is Around.

Today It Is Generally Accepted That Although The Earliest Humans Probably Ate Some Meat, It Was Unlikely To Have Played A Major Role In Their Diet. Plants Would Have Been A Much More Important Source Of Food.