Jane Goodall Quotes

Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

Without patience I could never have succeeded.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

Here was a chimpanzee using a tool... That was object modification-- the crude beginning of tool making.

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really, for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Become as knowledgeable as possible.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place
or not to bother

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease. Through

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!

If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

And always I have this feeling
which may not be true at all
that I am being used as a messenger.

Children can change the world.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.

The awful thing is we don't respect each other.

Having respect for animals makes us better humans..

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.