To Reconnect With Nature Is Key If

It Was Because The Chimps Are So Eye-catching, So Like Us And Teach Us So Much That My Work Was Recognised Worldwide.

So Long As We Continued To Attach More Importance To Our Own Narrow Group Membership Than To The 'global Village' We Would Propagate Prejudice And Ignorance. There Was Absolutely No Harm In Being Part Of A Small Group - Indeed, With Our Hunter-gatherer Band Mentality It Gave Comfort, Provided Us With An Inner Circle Of Friends Who Could Be Utterly Trusted, Who Were Absolutely Reliable. It Helped Give Us Peace Of Mind. The Danger Came Only From Drawing That Sharp Line, Digging That Ditch, Laying That Minefield, Between Our Own Group And Any Other Group That Thought Differently.

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.

The Person Who Has The Most Influence On Me Is My Mother. Think Of Life As A Flight Where We Fly Higher And Higher. If I Were A Bird That Needs Feathers To Fly Higher, I Would Regard My Mother As My Strongest Feather.

I Started As - Well, I Wanted To Be Poet Laureate. And I Wanted To Be A Naturalist. That's How I Began. I Didn't Have Any Desire To Go And Be A Scientist. Louis Leakey Channeled Me There. I'm Delighted He Did. I Love Science. I Love Analyzing And Making Sense Of All These Observations. So, It Was The Perfect Rounding Off Of Who I Was Into Who I Am.