Jane Goodall Quotes

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

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

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Every individual can make a difference every day by making conscious choices.

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

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

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

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

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.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.

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.

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

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.

At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.

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

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

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.

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

There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

Nothing is more precious than your baby.

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

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

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!

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

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.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.

If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he will think of how he can counterattack.

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.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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 believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

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

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

My favorite animals are dogs.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.

Chimpanzees can be quite political.

Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.