Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, n….

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….

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

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

People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about t….

Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intel….

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….

You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space..

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, becau….

If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other peo….

You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to ….

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our f….

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful..

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 ….

I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active..

Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of su….

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 Na….

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzee….

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger..

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!.