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
There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 Image
