Jane Goodall Quotes - Page 11

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• ...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

  Jane Goodall

  Hurt, Fighting, Special

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• Nothing is more precious than your baby.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

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  Selfish, Genes, Thesis

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

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  Mean, Icons, People

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• Chimpanzees can be quite political.

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  Political, Chimpanzees

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.

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  Mother, Supportive, Patient

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

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  Party, Clothes, Care

  Interview with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

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• Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.

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  Past, Rushing, Water

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

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• I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.

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  Writing, Reflection, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• My favorite animals are dogs.

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  Dog, Animal, My Favorite

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

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  Successful, Acting, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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  Eye, Catching, Teach

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• If you consciously say 'I won't do it!' to yourself, then you have a good chance that you won't.

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  Chance, Good Chance, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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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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  Anger, Echoes, Going Away

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• You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

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  Agriculture, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

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  Men, Pay, Drink

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  War, Mean, Violence

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• In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

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  Struggle, Years, People

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• Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.

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  Way, Feels, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

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  Animal, Thinking, Arrogance

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• 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.

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  Animal, Individuality, Intuition

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• Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

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  Science, Mathematician, Humans

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• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

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  Compassion, Order, Heritage

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How does it affect me, now? How does it affect the next shareholders meeting, three months ahead? How does it affect my next political campaign?"

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  People, Decision, Political

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: I'm not going to fight for animal rights". Interview with Laura Sevier, www.theecologist.org. April 12, 2010.

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• Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per cent of our DNA is the same. The difference is that we have developed language - we can teach about things that aren't there, plan for the future, discuss, share ideas

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  Dark, Intelligent, Dna

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