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
I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he… — 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
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
If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not… — 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