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Jane Goodall Quotes


If we kill off the wild then we are killing a part of our souls. Jane Goodall Nature 177
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. Jane Goodall Humans 110
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 away, they just echo around. Jane Goodall Anger 91
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right. Jane Goodall Change 91
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. There's room for intuition. Jane Goodall Science 75
In chimpanzee society, we find many, many examples of compassion, precursors to love and true altruism. Jane Goodall Love 72
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics. Jane Goodall Politics 70
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 personalities and minds and feelings. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 63
What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall Inspiration 55
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 are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 43
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. Jane Goodall Parenting 40
I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 37
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 human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 34
We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 30
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 human warfare. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 29
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion altruism and love. Jane Goodall Compassion 28
Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive. Jane Goodall Uncategorized 26
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 is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that. Jane Goodall Science 22

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