17 quotes found
“Release your Inner Bonobo”
“Love the Earth You Make Love On”
“Pleasure is the Root of All Good”
“The ideal is the enemy of the real.”
“Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.”
“In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm”
“Like my prehistoric hunter-gatherer ancestors, I hit the road fairly often in my footloose youth. From Yales Dramat to Afghanistans Bamiyan Buddhas, from the tantric ashrams of Kathmandu to the lib...”
“I loved the zebras, the cheetahs, the fruit flies, the octopi and the rest. But The Nature of Sex climaxed with a species Id never heard of before, bonobos, which the narrator also called by their ...”
“I squinted through the big window, a portal to another world, trying to get a better view of the primal love scene before us. All I could see was a mass of wriggling fur and finger-like toes until ...”
“If only we could keep the wars between sperm and stop the ones between people, we would have peace through pleasure.”
“Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than usand they dont build houses or churches or Pentagons like we dothese primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely human...”
“Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.”
“Mommy, Daddy, what are they doing? a little girl asked, watching the bonobos play. Her forehead and palms were pressed against the glass, as if she thought she could break on through to the other s...”
“What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?”
“Deep in the heart of the hot, wet African rainforest, there lives a tribe of peacemakers who share a multiplicity of pleasures and make a very special kind of love. South of the sprawling Congo Riv...”
“Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us—and they don’t build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do—these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely “h...”
“Mommy, Daddy, what are they doing?” a little girl asked, watching the bonobos play. Her forehead and palms were pressed against the glass, as if she thought she could break on through to the other ...”