I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin.…

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and ar…

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

I never felt interpretation was my job.

- Mary Leakey

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

- Mary Leakey

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

- Mary Leakey