Louise Leakey famous quotes

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.
-- Louise Leakey

#Intelligent #Apes #Bigs

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.
-- Louise Leakey

#Writing #Brain #Language

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

#Moving #Needs #Earth

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

#Dirty #Past #People

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

#Father #Animal #Choices

In the rush of todays 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

#Cities #People #Majority

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

#Thinking #Long #Looks

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

#Cities #People #Half

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.