People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
-
-
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL -
I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
JANE GOODALL -
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALL -
Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
JANE GOODALL -
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL -
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL -
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
JANE GOODALL -
Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
JANE GOODALL -
I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
JANE GOODALL -
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
JANE GOODALL -
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALL -
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALL -
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL -
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL -
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
JANE GOODALL






