The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
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.
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.
Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.
A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama