The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

We continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable horror prevail. I have visited one of these myself and I assure you that whatever has been printed on them to date has been understatement.

There are some things that are as basic and as structural in history, and if we don't know these things, we are in danger of destroying ourselves and our world.