Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if….

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us i….

My favorite animals are dogs..

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes..

I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then the….

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal..

I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time..

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….

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it..

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of..

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadne….

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks..

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice..

There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren'….

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up th….

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by….

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard s….

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth..

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings..

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals..

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 scien….