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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

Jane Goodall

Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Beginning Tools
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
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

Decision Difference Philosophy World Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Thinking World
You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
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

Destroy Live
It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALL

Deep Difficult Oppression Woman
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death Eyes Hope Mental Misery Myself Prison Support Talk
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
JANE GOODALL

Prayer Strength
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Change Listen People Right Start
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
JANE GOODALL

Fun Help Justice
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Ourselves Place
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Last Right Value
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death
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 GOODALL

Book Carry Myself Nature Peace People

And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

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