"It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior."
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"You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space."
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"Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything."
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"Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful."
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"Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around."
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"Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans."
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"The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts."
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"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!"
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"I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads."
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"There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade."
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"My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again."
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"every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change."
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"Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and brought to a horrible concrete pen when they're supposed to be out in the sea."
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"Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like numbers on a TV screen, way better than ours. You come onto the emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, and despair - all the things for which I was accused of being anthropomorphic when I ascribed them to chimpanzees."
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"The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one."
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"We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts."
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"Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner."
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"As thy days, so shall thy strength be."
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"Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that."
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"The awful thing is we don't respect each other."
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