Planet of the Apes2001

Nado:
We just returned from our country house.

Sandar:
How was it?

Nova:
Boring.

Nado:
I find it relaxing being away from the bustle of the city.

Nova:
There was no place to go. Nothing but trees and rocks. All you did was nap.

Nado:
Exactly. Time away from politics. . . . . .is what I needed. We'd lose ourselves for days in the forest when we were young. Now I can barely climb a tree.

Sandar:
Trite but true: "Youth is wasted on the young. " Oh, how did I get so old so fast?

Thade:
Living with your daughter would age any ape quickly.

Sandar:
You've been a stranger lately.

Thade:
I apologize for my lateness, senator. I stopped to see my father.

Sandar:
How's my old friend?

Thade:
Slipping, I'm afraid. I'd like to see him more, but these are troubled days. The humans infest the provinces.

Ari:
We encroach upon their habitat. They breed while we grow soft in our affluence.

Thade:
They outnumber us four to one!

Nova:
Why can't we simply sterilize them all?

Nado:
The cost would be prohibitive. Although scientists tell me. . . . . .these humans carry terrible diseases.

Ari:
How would we know? The army burns the bodies before they're examined. Father?

Sandar:
At times, perhaps, the senate feels that the army has been. . .. . .a tad extreme.

Thade:
Extremism in defense of apes is no vice, senator! Your ideas threaten our prosperity! The human problem can't be solved with money!

Nado:
We tried that once, and all we got was. .. . .a welfare state that nearly broke us.

Nova:
I think the city has about as much diversity as I can handle.

Ari:
This garment was made by one of my humans. And can you deny the skill? Obviously, they're capable of a real culture.

Thade:
Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist.