My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

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.

The light is shinning in every dark place.

You’re scaring the dog, ” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that inprisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

The last five-six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

Live like your always trying to impress someone

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.