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Animal Quotes by Jane Goodall
- To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and…
- I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your…
- Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.
- There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at…
- Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it.…
- Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world…
- It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding…
- Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the…
- Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are…
- We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".
- There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our…
- I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.
- Having respect for animals makes us better humans..
- When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science.…
- I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
- Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.
- There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere…
- It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this…
- Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become…
- I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
- The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns…
- If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings…
- I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world,…
- I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.
- 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…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough