Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group.

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I love irony.

I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.

Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.

Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy.

Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.

African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.

I'm for any woman who loves sloths.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!

I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.