Mary Leakey Quotes

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• I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if…
• There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments…
• The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
• I never felt interpretation was my job.
• I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
• No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
• I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.
• You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
• Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.
• Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
• I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
• Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
• She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely…

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