Behavior Quotes by Jane Goodall

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

— Jane Goodall

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

— Jane Goodall

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all…

— Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

— Jane Goodall

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

— 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

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first…

— Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was…

— Jane Goodall

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated…

— Jane Goodall

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

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

We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our…

— Jane Goodall

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,…

— 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

We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so…

— Jane Goodall