39 Quotes by Louis Leakey

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

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.

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

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.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

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

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

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

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!