As Thy Days, So Shall

It Was Both Fascinating And Appalling To Learn That Chimpanzees Were Capable Of Hostile And Territorial Behavior That Was Not Unlike Certain Forms Of Primitive Human Warfare.

I Get Upset When So Many People Say There Are All Sorts Of Problems In Africa And India Where They Have These Big Families. They Don't Realize That 10 Children In Rural Tanzania Will Use Less Natural Resources In A Year Than One Middle Class American Child. People Don't Think Like That.

Today It Is Generally Accepted That Although The Earliest Humans Probably Ate Some Meat, It Was Unlikely To Have Played A Major Role In Their Diet. Plants Would Have Been A Much More Important Source Of Food.

If Plants Could Be Credited With Reasoning Powers, We Would Marvel At The Imaginative Ways They Bribe Or Ensnare Other Creatures To Carry Out Their Wishes.

When I Was A Child, The African Forest Sounded Like A Dream To Me, Because It Was Full Of Animals And It Was Wild.