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

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.

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.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!

No Such Thing as Bad Results