Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Some touch of Nature's genial glow.