Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

Louis Leakey
Louis 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.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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
Louis Leakey

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

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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
Louis 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.

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

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
Louis 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.