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Animals Quotes by Jane Goodall

37 Animals quotes by Jane Goodall

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A wish to talk to animals like Dr. Dolittle reflects a belief that respecting them makes us better humans. Animals are described as having personalities, minds, and emotions, and caring for them includes remembering that humans are animals too and that they deserve compassion.

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

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I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

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My favorite animals are dogs.

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Having respect for animals makes us better humans..

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

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Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

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Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more…

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Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

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I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them…

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Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we…

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There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them…

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When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is…

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Animals are as deserving of a place on this planet as we are, and the difference between us is that humans have…

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I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and…

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

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I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember…

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

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We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we…

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I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London…

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The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the…

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Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are…

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People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they…

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Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced…

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You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well…

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It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in…

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There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are…

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I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most…

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There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and…

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There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things…

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I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

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

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

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Having respect for animals makes us better humans..

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

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