No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. Mary Leakey Read Quote
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. Mary Leakey Read Quote
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. It is most depressing. Mary Leakey Read Quote
I quite liked having a baby – I think I won’t put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist. Mary Leakey Read Quote
