The loneliness of man is the loneliness of the animal. We must have each other. The baboon seeks his troop, the bookkeeper his busy office, the buffalo his herd on some far savanna, the weary bricklayer his fellows at the corner pub, the starling his chattering flock among London streets, the hyena his clan, the farmer his wife when the last chores are done, the herring his school in the cold North Sea, all for quite the same reason: because we cannot survive without each other.