Animal Quotes by Jane Goodall

Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.

— Jane Goodall

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

— Jane Goodall

My favorite animals are dogs.

— Jane Goodall

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

— Jane Goodall

Having respect for animals makes us better humans..

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.

— Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What…

— Jane Goodall

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

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

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

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

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

I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a…

— Jane Goodall

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain…

— Jane Goodall

Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who…

— Jane Goodall

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of…

— Jane Goodall

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

When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things…

— Jane Goodall

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we…

— Jane Goodall

Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a…

— Jane Goodall

Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;…

— Jane Goodall

Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way…

— Jane Goodall

“And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts. More and more people…

— Jane Goodall

Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

— Jane Goodall

Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

— Jane Goodall

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it…

— Jane Goodall