Jane Goodall Quotations | Page 2

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.

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.

I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

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!

When I go back to Gombe it's to be in that timeless world where it's soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around.

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.