I Don't Care Two Hoots About Civilization.

My Mission Is To Create A World Where We Can Live In Harmony With Nature. And Can I Do That Alone? No. So There Is A Whole Army Of Youth That Can Do It. So I Suppose My Mission Is To Reach As Many Of Those Young People As I Can Through My Own Efforts.

I Get Upset When So Many People Say There Are All Sorts Of Problems In Africa And India Where They Have These Big Families. They Don't Realize That 10 Children In Rural Tanzania Will Use Less Natural Resources In A Year Than One Middle Class American Child. People Don't Think Like That.

We, As Humans, Have Actually Developed A Sense Of Social Responsibility. We Have Gone Beyond Our Basic Instincts. We Can And We Do. This Is What Sets Us Apart From The Chimps. They Are Extremely Brutal And Hostile. Your Next Door Neighbor Is To Be Killed Unless She Is A Juicy Young Female, Who Hasn't Yet Had Her First Baby, In Which Case You Want Her.

Most Africans Don't Get To See These Wild Animals At All. Once They See And Learn About Them, They Are Much More Likely To Become Involved In Protecting The Environment.

I Never Wanted To Give Up. I Thought I Might Have To. Especially At The Beginning When Chimpanzees Had Never Seen A White Person Before.they Gave One Look At Me And Ran Away! They Were Scared, But Eventually I Got Their Trust.