If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandch….

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope..

Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relati….

If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't..

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 -….

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything..

Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above all, we can bring p….

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history;….

I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people ….

If you educate women, family size tends to go down..

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop..

The awful thing is we don't respect each other..

The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasin….

We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the thin….

there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not ha….

The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts..

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood..

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're alm….

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of co….

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in a….

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide..