Louis Leakey Quotes
- Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
- Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
- Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
- Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right…
- Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
- Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they…
- The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
- South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
- The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
- To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
- The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits…
- People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a…
- Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
- We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
- The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
- Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial…
- There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
- Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to…
- I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it…
- As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different…