Apes Quote by Patrick Bergin

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living…

— Virginia McKenna

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we…

— Jane Goodall

The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the…

— Yaya Toure

“Earthlog 3002-3003 In many of the monkey nations of earth their local governments often ban books, and yet not a single earth country has…

— Abhijit Naskar

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

— Andy Dunn

“Today, the earth’s continents are home to billions of Sapiens. If you took all these people and put them on a large set of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor…

— Pat Derby

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one…

— Richard Leakey

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

— Rick Bayan

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and…

— Frans de Waal

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich…

— Peter Singer

On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence…

— April Gornik