"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
"And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not."
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"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."
"You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do."
"Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love."
"Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential."
"Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment."