I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.