Mary Leakey Quotes

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

I think it`s the most important find in view of human evolution. I was really looking for tools, but we never found any at the site.

I`d rather be in a tent than in a house.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.