I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same… — 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