We think that groups of between 30 and 4... by Richard Leakey | We Heart Quotes

Author Politician Men Environmentalist Conservationist

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

- Richard Leakey

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

- Richard Leakey

World

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

- Richard Leakey

Control

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

- Richard Leakey

Years Time World

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.

- Richard Leakey

Years

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.

- Richard Leakey

Investment

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

- Richard Leakey

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