I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLI never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
JANE GOODALLAnd always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALLHere we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALLThousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
JANE GOODALLThe least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALLWe find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALLSo, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
JANE GOODALLIt was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
JANE GOODALLI love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
JANE GOODALLThere is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALLPeople 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 GOODALLWe have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALLEach 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