Jane Goodall Quotes

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've ...

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I...

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I ...

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone...

At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reas...

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ev...

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was...

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you...

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments ar...

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural ...

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chim...

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel ...

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserab...

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. ...

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from ...

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...

My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to ...

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach...

When I was young, I knew that, somehow, I would go to Africa and live with animals. And I wanted to ...

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectl...

I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthus...

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are senti...

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and t...

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they t...

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is tha...

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the na...

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little g...

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate herita...

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet...

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explain...

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you wou...

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If y...

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I...

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should b...