I Wanted To Talk To The Animals

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.

But Does That Mean That War And Violence Are Inevitable? I Would Argue Not Because We Have Also Evolved This Amazingly Sophisticated Intellect, And We Are Capable Of Controlling Our Innate Behavior A Lot Of The Time.

I Didn't Want To Become A Professor Or Get Tenure Or Teach Or Anything. All I Wanted To Do Was Get A Degree Because Louis Leakey Said I Needed One, Which Was Right, And Once I Succeeded I Could Get Back To The Field.

We Can Learn To Suppress Our Feelings For Other Reasons.

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.