I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Animals are as deserving of a place on this planet as we are, and the difference between us is that humans have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall Copy Share
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. — Jane Goodall Copy Share
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
“We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
