Richard Leakey Quotes

Richard Erskine Frere Leakey FRS is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician. Leakey has held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conservation. He has been Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO WildlifeDirect, and is the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. December 1944
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Famous Richard Leakey Quotes

“I'm known for speaking my mind, a trait I probably inherited from my parents, Louis and Mary Leakey—neither of whom was renowned for tact.”

Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures (2001) with Virginia Morell

“I think both Louis and I were looking for more or less the same thing, and that is, when did our species, Homo, begin?”

As quoted by Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings (2011)

Richard Leakey Quotes about art

“Where Breuil has seen chaos—or at least, randomness—in wall art, Leroi-Gourhan sought and found order.”

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

Richard Leakey Quotes about time

Richard Leakey Quotes

“Next to the discovery of the Turkana boy, the visit to Lascaux ranks as one of the great moments of my life.”

Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human (1992)

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