Top 6 Louise Leakey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.”

— Louise Leakey

2. “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.”

— Louise Leakey

3. “Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.”

— Louise Leakey

4. “If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.”

— Louise Leakey

5. “In the rush of todays 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.”

— Louise Leakey

6. “Its important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know thats a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.”

— Louise Leakey

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