Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

...chance may do anything.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.