I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have… — 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
Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you… — 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 don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches… — 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
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment… — 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
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
