Jane Goodall Quotes

• 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 how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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• 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.

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• I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

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• 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 would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

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• Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

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• 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 that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

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• 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 down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

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• Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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• As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

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Jane Goodall (32)

Birth:	3rd April, 1934
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Anthropologist, Ethologist, Naturalist, Researcher

About

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall was born in London, England. She is a British anthropologist, primatologist, ethologist, naturalist, researcher and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She obtained a PhD degree in ethology from Newnham College, Cambridge University in 1965. She has written several books include: My Friends the Wild Chimpanzees, Africa in my blood, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, The Ten Trusts(with Marc Bekoff), and Hope for Animals and Their World.

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