Louis Leakey Quotes


29 quotes:

"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."
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"We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai."
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"We explored about 180 miles of exposures, ranging from a depth of about 300 feet to 50 feet, before we undertook any major digging."
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"We decided to leave a part of each and every excavated area exactly as we had found it, protecting the specimens from rain and excessive sun."
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"Tracing the paintings was often complicated because of high winds and by the difficulties of getting within reach of the paintings."
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"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."
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"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
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"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."
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"The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years."
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"The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics."
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"The crocodile was laid stomach upwards to be cut open. The stomach contents included bracelets, beads, necklaces, and indications of human meals."
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"The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
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"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."
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"Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult."
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"Our water hole at the camp was little more than a liquid, muddy swamp, in which a rhino wallowed daily and added urine to the puddle."
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"Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price."
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"I withdrew my support for the validity of the evidence for early Pleistocene Stone Age tools in Europe on the grounds of not proven."
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"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!"
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"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."
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