“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was
amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours
and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is
indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing
monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end.
For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity.
Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled.
Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants
something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he
shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the
characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
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