Jane Goodall Quotes
Top 92 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jane Goodall on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.
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.
Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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.
We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.
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 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.
Every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.
Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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!
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.
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 could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.
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!
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.
Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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.
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.
I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.