31+ Louise Leakey Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Louise Leakey quotes and sayings.

Top 10 Louise Leakey Quotes

1. We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
2. Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.
3. Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
4. When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
5. 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 South America.
6. There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
7. 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 reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!
8. 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 service in Kenya.
9. What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
10. South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Louise Leakey Short Quotes

• The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
• The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
• Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.
• The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
• I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
• I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Louise Leakey Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louise Leakey

Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future. — Louise Leakey

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct. — Louise Leakey

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. — Louise Leakey

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species. — Louise Leakey

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone. — Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. — Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us [paleontologists] will walk around and find small pieces of you. — Louise Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology. — Louise Leakey

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. — Louise Leakey

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 had magic or religious significance. — Louise Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves. — Louise Leakey

In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of Nature. — Louise Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene. — Louise Leakey