Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

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.

For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

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