“With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grand...” — Louise Leakey Quote

“With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.”

“In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of nature.”

“What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.”

“Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.”

“Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.”

“If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.”