Louis Leakey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
-- Louis Leakey

#Funny Travel #Difficult #Expeditions
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
-- Louis Leakey

#Tools #Stones #Behavior
We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
-- Louis Leakey

#Sick #Masai #Clinic
The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.
-- Louis Leakey

#Missing You #Years #Missing
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.
-- Louis Leakey

#Senior #Hippie #People
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
-- Louis Leakey

#Art #Aggravation #Painting
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.
-- Louis Leakey

#Islands #Years #America
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!
-- Louis Leakey

#Python #Feet #Tree
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 races of mankind. Indeed, I would be inclined to suggest that however great may be the physical differences between such races as the European and the Negro, the mental and psychological differences are greater still.
-- Louis Leakey

#Stress #Race #Differences
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.
-- Louis Leakey

#Father #Years #Kenya
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about manâ€™s pastâ€¦the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.
-- Louis Leakey

#Past #Men #Race
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.
-- Louis Leakey

#Mean #Age #Bed
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
-- Louis Leakey

#Recovery #Animal #Skeletons
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
-- Louis Leakey

#Sleep #Nursing #Animal
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 away back 2 million years.
-- Louis Leakey

#Past #Years #Giving
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
-- Louis Leakey

#Brides #Bases
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.
-- Louis Leakey

#Religious #Men #Magic
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
-- Louis Leakey

#Done #Want
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
-- Louis Leakey

#Long #Records #Lasts
The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
-- Louis Leakey

#Dog #Characteristics #Primitive
To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
-- Louis Leakey

#Animal #Order #Suffering
I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles 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.
-- Louis Leakey

#Water #Bullets #Necks

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