Jane Goodall Quotes - Page 9

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• Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

  Jane Goodall

  Opportunity, Tree, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Today

  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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• 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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• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Animal

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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!

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  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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• 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.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Soldier, Risk

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Break Through, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

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  Wish, Way, Plant

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• Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

  Jane Goodall

  Long, Want, Compromise

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

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• You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Expression, Parent

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

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  Sound, Language, Teach

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

  Jane Goodall

  Sadness, Emotion, Sin

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

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• If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

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  Law, Break, Dare

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

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• I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.

  Jane Goodall

  Giving Up, White, Might

  Interview with Pearl Chan, Hetty Lee and Hollie Chung, yp.scmp.com. 2010.

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• I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.

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  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.

  Jane Goodall

  Blood, Dna, Brain

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother, Children, Expression

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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• Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

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  Female, Resources, Primates

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

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  Animal, Feelings, Want

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• I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

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  Karma, Believe, Giving

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Gone, Instinct

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

  Jane Goodall

  Trying, Scientist, Naturalist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Jane Goodall

  School, Men, Yesterday

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill who do not subscribe to their faith, the greater their reward in heaven.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, People, Heaven

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". CNN Chat Room, edition.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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