To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

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 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.

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

How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality

Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

To influence others must keep growing themselves.

All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.