All Jane Goodall Quotes
- I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have… All
- 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 whole life business… Awe
- I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't… Everyone
- Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science… Admit
- I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior. Animal
- Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. Believe
- Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go… Anger
- We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it… Abject
- My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any… Africa
- What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. Ability
- You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have… Animal
- I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's… All
- Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. Aggressive
- Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I… Been
- We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they… All
- Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive. Admit
- It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide. Catching
- When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility… Baby
- But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we… Amazingly
- I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. Always Pushing
- It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that… Anthropoid
- It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive… Appalling
- War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of… Accounts
- When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who… Afford
- Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with… Ape