Richard Leakey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.”

“Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.”

“The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.”

“To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.”

“We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.”

“Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.”

“We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.”

“The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.”

“I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.”

“I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.”