It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

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.

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.

You don't happen to have a thousand dollars I can borrow?" "I don't have five you can borrow. My piggy bank is officialy anorexic.

if you have returned then either its a deception or its a dream...from now no nightmares onwards.

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I came out of retirement to run a start-up, Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.