Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 April 1934
CityLondon, England
The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.
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.
I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
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.
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.
I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.
Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise.
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.
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?
In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.
I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.
Of course animals have a personality and emotions.