Over the years I have made over 100 sculptures of gorillas. Unlike humans and chimps, gorillas do not wage war against other bands, or commit murder against members of their own band, or torture their enemies. Like humans, gorillas don't really have natural enemies but they refuse to substitute their own kind as enemies as humans and chimps do. Because they are morally superior beings and still very closely related to us, I can never make too many gorilla sculptures. They are, as Abraham Lincoln once said in reference to peaceful humans, the better angels of our nature.
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