It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

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.

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

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.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

Time heals almost everything. But when you are healed, you are too old to enjoy

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.