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.
Richard LeakeyIt has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million, as Erwin (Terry Erwin, the Smithsonian Institute) estimates, then, working as they have in the past, insect taxonomists have ten thousand years of employment ahead of them. Ghilean Prance, director of the Botanical Gardens in Kew, estimates that a complete list of plants in the Americas would occupy taxonomists for four centuries, again working at historical rates.
Richard LeakeyIt's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
Richard LeakeyPrimates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
Richard Leakey