Chimpanzees Quote by Russell Banks Download Open image “Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.” — Russell Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chimpanzees
The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“my blue eyes peering into their brown eyes and seeing there some essential part of myself, some irreducible aspect of my being, which in… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“They were the only three people I'd chosen on my own to love, and they were gone. But still, that morning in Mobay when… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves” — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
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… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“Lucy preferred gin and tonics during the summer and switched over to whiskey sours in the winter. At dinner, a sit-down affair with the… — Elizabeth Hess Copy Share Image
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
