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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the human ability to respond to potential threats and the significance of such actions over time.
Mary Leakey's quote emphasizes a fundamental aspect of human behavior: our instinct to assess our surroundings for threats before proceeding. This seemingly simple motion of stopping and looking around evokes a deep understanding of our evolutionary past and illustrates how our responses to the environment are timeless and intrinsic to what it means to be human.
In practice
In a discussion about human evolution at a seminar, one might use this quote to highlight our innate instincts.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted.
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.
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