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.

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.

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.

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.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.