My Favorite Animals Are Dogs.

We're The Ones Who Can Make A Difference. If We Lead Lives Where We Consciously Leave The Lightest Possible Ecological Footprints, If We Buy The Things That Are Ethical For Us To Buy And Don't Buy The Things That Are Not, We Can Change The World Overnight.

The Problem Of The Chimps Is That They Can Only Sit And Look. They Can't Discuss What They Feel. All That Feeling Is Trapped Within Each One.

I Started As - Well, I Wanted To Be Poet Laureate. And I Wanted To Be A Naturalist. That's How I Began. I Didn't Have Any Desire To Go And Be A Scientist. Louis Leakey Channeled Me There. I'm Delighted He Did. I Love Science. I Love Analyzing And Making Sense Of All These Observations. So, It Was The Perfect Rounding Off Of Who I Was Into Who I Am.

My Family Has Very Strong Women. My Mother Never Laughed At My Dream Of Africa, Even Though Everyone Else Did Because We Didn't Have Any Money, Because Africa Was The 'dark Continent', And Because I Was A Girl.

I Had Never Been Able To Believe That God Would Give Us Poor Frail Humans Only One Chance At Making It -- That We Would Be Assigned To Some Kind Of Hell Because We Failed During One Experience Of Mortal Life. ... So The Concepts Of Karma And Reincarnation Made Logical Sense To Me.