We set up the promised clinic for the si... by Louis Leakey | We Heart Quotes

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

- Louis Leakey

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Years

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

- Louis Leakey

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

- Louis Leakey

Popular People

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.

- Louis Leakey

Example Man

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

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

England Years Time Life

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

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