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
I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a… — 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
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then… — 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
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have… — 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
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
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
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
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 Image
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
