Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved. — 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
We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the… — 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
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human". — 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
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our 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
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
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
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the… — 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
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
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
I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals. — 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
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
When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known;… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it. — 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
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
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