Jane Goodall quotes - page 2

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. (Jane Goodall)
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. View quote
Jane Goodall
Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other. View quote
Jane Goodall
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. View quote
Jane Goodall
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, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began. View quote
Jane Goodall
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. View quote
Jane Goodall
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 to them. View quote
Jane Goodall
Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful. 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. View quote
Jane Goodall
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet. View quote
Jane Goodall
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. View quote
Jane Goodall
Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs- and the journey to get there- before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death. (Jane Goodall)
But if the same tests, the same foods are examined by an independent scientist, then it turns out that in almost every case there are quite serious harms done to the rats, the mice or the other poor unfortunate animals, particularly internal organs like liver and kidneys and things of that sort. View quote
Jane Goodall
Louis deliberately chose someone who hadn't been to university because theories of animal behaviour at that time were very rigid, and Louis didn't want someone whose mind was biased in that way. Wise man. But still I had the responsibility to prove myself. I remember looking up at the hills and wondering, "Can I do it?”. View quote
Jane Goodall
It is our disregard for nature and our disrespect of the animals we should share the planet with that has caused this pandemic, that was predicted long ago. View quote
Jane Goodall
And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger. View quote
Jane Goodall
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice. View quote
Jane Goodall
So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction.... I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find. View quote
Jane Goodall
They communicate, but their communication system is through touch, posture, looks – body language you could call it, but it goes a bit deeper than that. They can learn 400 or more signs in American sign language. View quote
Jane Goodall
How would I have turned out, I sometimes wonder, had I grown up in a house that stifled enterprise by imposing harsh and senseless discipline? Or in an atmosphere of overindulgence, in a household where there were no rules, no boundaries drawn? My mother certainly understood the importance of discipline, but she always explained why some things were not allowed. Above all, she tried to be fair and to be consistent. View quote
Jane Goodall
Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way [from GMOs], potentially for us, let's listen to what they're telling us. Let's take heed. View quote
Jane Goodall
As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren. (Jane Goodall)
A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do. View quote
Jane Goodall
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. View quote
Jane Goodall
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. View quote
Jane Goodall
You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us. View quote
Jane Goodall