Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

In order to reach his destiny and have dominion over the earth, man has to get wisdom.

Whoever believes in getting water feels no thirst.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.