I Still Think We Are Smart Enough

The Least I Can Do Is Speak Out For The Hundreds Of Chimpanzees Who, Right Now, Sit Hunched, Miserable And Without Hope, Staring Out With Dead Eyes From Their Metal Prisons. They Cannot Speak For Themselves.

I Got To Africa. I Got The Opportunity To Go And Learn, Not About Any Animal, But Chimpanzees. I Was Living In My Dream World, The Forest In Gombe National Park In Tanzania. It Was Tanganyika When I Began.

Words Can Be Said In Bitterness And Anger, And Often There Seems To Be An Element Of Truth In The Nastiness. And Words Don't Go Away, They Just Echo Around.

My Mother Always Taught Us That If People Don't Agree With You, The Important Thing Is To Listen To Them. But If You've Listened To Them Carefully And You Still Think That You're Right, Then You Must Have The Courage Of Your Convictions.

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.