I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
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I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... JANE GOODALL What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. JANE GOODALL There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled... JANE GOODALL My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. JANE GOODALL People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want b... JANE GOODALL The greatest danger to our future is apathy. JANE GOODALL Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good ... JANE GOODALL There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective... JANE GOODALL My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you... 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JANE GOODALL The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and t... JANE GOODALL It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territor... JANE GOODALL Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the huma... JANE GOODALL When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I... JANE GOODALL It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. ... JANE GOODALL Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their fores... JANE GOODALL I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-make... JANE GOODALL I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natu... JANE GOODALL In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara... JANE GOODALL I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was... JANE GOODALL In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and... JANE GOODALL I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '... JANE GOODALL Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't ch... JANE GOODALL Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved... JANE GOODALL I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laug... JANE GOODALL The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and ... 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JANE GOODALL Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very agg... JANE GOODALL In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to sav... JANE GOODALL My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone... JANE GOODALL I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was g... JANE GOODALL My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature, JANE GOODALL As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we... JANE GOODALL I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, th... JANE GOODALL We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the w... JANE GOODALL The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. 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JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh... JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ... JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, ... JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked... JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN