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“However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.”

Jane Goodall

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The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own…

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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

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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…

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I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the…

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

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We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people…

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Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

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We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution,…

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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of…

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I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

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Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

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It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of…

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