Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Mary Leakey

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Mary Leakey

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

I never felt interpretation was my job.
Mary Leakey

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

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

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
Mary Leakey

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

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