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 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

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

i asked God to give me a love via synchronicity so when it was my time to allow someone into my heart ~ he entered my world, as if by magic.

The sky had lightened when they got up from the sand. They shook the blanket before wrapping it around them both. Cuddling close they entered the hotel, shivering as they stood in the elevator.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

The killing of innocent people is a sin.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.