The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
From Mary Leakey
Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.
I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
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.
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
I never felt interpretation was my job.
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.
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