The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

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

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.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

Yeah. Some people just don't understand when their facial hair starts to look ridiculous.

Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual.

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.