Louis Leakey Quotes

I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

Why wouldn't you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It's a dragon. It's a dinosaur.

I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.

The Crocodile. He just lies there on the riverbank, his eyes half closed, looking sleepy. Then whap, he bites.

This snake's hard to kill.

He [President Gerald Ford] looks like the guy in a science fiction movie who is first to see the Creature.

If you see the lion’s fangs showing, do not think the lion is smiling.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.

I am actually terrified of sharks; it is my number-one fear.

I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here--- every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.

I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.

Get used to the bear behind you.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.