The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks. — 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
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
Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide. — 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
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
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
Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a… — 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
Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of… — 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
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — 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
