The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective -… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if… — 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 learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful.… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go… — 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
