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We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.
Richard Leakey
Men
Think
Settled
Hundred
Would
Area
Between
Square
Measuring
Groups
Early
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
Richard Leakey
History
Man
Important
Finds
Investigate
Development
Most
Course
The History Of
The Most Important
Fossils
Hominid
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.
Richard Leakey
Say
Further
Definitely
East
Ditch
Like
Perhaps
Pass
Came
West
North
North Africa
Africa
African
Happened
Whether
Place
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
Richard Leakey
Time
World
Wealth
Few
Else
Destroyed
Could
Like
Concerned
Years
Discovery
Human
Place
Which
Fossils
Found
Nowhere
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.
Richard Leakey
People
Problem
Once
Corridor
Area
Retreated
Safer
Decade
Moved
Heavy
Used
Now
Elephants
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
Richard Leakey
Work
Science
Bone
Life-Long
Discovery
Task
Ends
Original
One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey
Single
Few
Difficult
Tooth
Sliver
Small
Categorizing
Pieces
Period
Items
Very
Surviving
Forget
Often
Just
Should
Skull
Bones
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
Richard Leakey
World
Think
Other
Vast
Source
Any
Which
Region
Fossils
I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.
Roberto Burle Marx
Garden
Salad
Did
I'm a plant eater.
Roberto Burle Marx
Plant
Eater
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson
Environmental
Trouble
Birds
Environment
Soon
Know
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Roger Tory Peterson
Life
Environmental
Natural
World
Beginning
Gloom
Understand
Reverence
Doom
Gaining
Natural World
I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.
Roz Savage
Long
Never
Am
Very
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Place
I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.
Roz Savage
Life
My Life
Living
Mindful
Through
Environmentally
Track
How
Lot
Being
Whether
I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.
Roz Savage
Life
Normal
Normal Life
Office
Just
Really
Working
Used
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.
Roz Savage
You
Important
Ocean
Pretty
Make
Very
Irrelevant
Psychology
Much
Technique
Rowing
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
Roz Savage
You
Yourself
Advice
Out
Something
Surprise
Get
Just
Asking
Really
Keep
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.
Roz Savage
Environmental
Sports
World
Amazing
Car
Become
Own
Clothes
Seeing
House
Am
Amazing Things
Huge
Experiencing
Things
Designer
My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. There's a connection between what the liver can't break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
You
Daughter
Down
Trigger
Minute
Headache
Between
She
Real
Handful
Goes
Gets
Just
Break
Migraine
Sweets
Connection
Aware
Liver
The planet's environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy consumption.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Environmental
Energy
Latest
Tend
Gizmos
High-Tech
Consumption
Overlooked
Woes
Scramble
Conveniently
Energy Consumption
Planet
Ignore
My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Joy
Pride
Vegetable
Patch
Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Love
Women
Experience
Most
Shiny
Very
Children
Different
Little
Little Children
Bright
Grown-Up
Things
Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Way
Consuming
Particularly
Redemption
Leather
Preference
Your
Less
Hemp
Fastest
There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Collar
About
Hottest
Most
Lot
Gets
Irritating
Packaging
Us
Aspects
Large
Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that's locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It's a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children's children.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Future
Vote
Animal
Shopping
Welfare
Organic
Locally
All The Difference
One Thing
Environment
Putting
Makes
Difference
Children
Produced
Your
Even
Thing
Basket
If you're trying to cut down the distance travelled from the farm to your plate, it makes sense to do the same for your pet. If we all shifted our bias towards sustainable pet food, we would be helping more than just our faithful friends.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
Food
You
Pet
Faithful
Sense
Farm
Down
Our
Distance
Would
Would-Be
More
Towards
Bias
Makes
Shifted
Friends
Than
Trying
Same
Just
Sustainable
Cut
Your
Helping
Plate
Travelled
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