A zoologist who observed gorillas in their antive habitat was amazed by the unformity of their life and their vast idleness.
Hours and hours without doing anything. Was bordeom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape.
Far from fleeting 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 hismelf unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.