Jane Goodall

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

— Jane Goodall

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When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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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. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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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. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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