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
A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a… — 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
I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I… — 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