Jane Goodall Quotes - Page 8

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• Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above all, we can bring people with different backgrounds and different knowledge together to discuss our problems. This actually gives me hope. I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Smart, Home

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• You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

  Jane Goodall

  Real, Space, Touching

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Intelligent, Moon

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.

  Jane Goodall

  Saving, Littles, Return

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

  Jane Goodall

  Clever, Heart, Brain

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Kissing, Differences

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

  Jane Goodall

  Kindness, Thinking, Rights

  "The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity". Book by Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, 1996.

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• Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Animal, Stronger

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• Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Taught Us, Kingdoms

  "Jane Goodall Documentary Commemorates 50 Years Of Pioneer Research" by Bonnie Christian, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Fighting, Animal

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Jane Goodall

  Fighting, Episodes, Aggressive

  "Jane Goodall On Why Words Hurt". www.forbes.com. October 24, 2005.

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• Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

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  Animal, Prepared, Bits

  "Jane Goodall on Bigfoot, Chimpanzees and Her education". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

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• There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Animal, Compassion

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.

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  Meat Eating, Numbers, People

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• I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.

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  Grief, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

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  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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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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  Unique, Years, Skeletons

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• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Animal

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• When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.

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  Dream, Children, Animal

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

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  People, Sound, May

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.

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  People, Decision, Today

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps.

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  Thinking, Soldier, Risk

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

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  Thinking, Laughing, Messages

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• When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. We can and we do. This is what sets us apart from the chimps. They are extremely brutal and hostile. Your next door neighbor is to be killed unless she is a juicy young female, who hasn't yet had her first baby, in which case you want her.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby, Responsibility, Doors

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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