It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
Richard LeakeyWhether 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.
Richard LeakeyThe elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
Richard LeakeyFor 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.
Richard Leakey