Jane Goodall Quotes

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

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.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.