I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people. Jane Goodall More Quotes by Jane Goodall More Quotes From Jane Goodall Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying. Jane Goodall acting successful needs 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 bird wind believe A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. Jane Goodall nails plans Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world. Jane Goodall break-through impact people You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other. Jane Goodall agriculture focus If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he will think of how he can counterattack. Jane Goodall curls ifs thinking Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values). Jane Goodall compromise want long I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior. Jane Goodall teaching animal teacher Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true. Jane Goodall hard animal people We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming. Jane Goodall suffering animal people Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference. Jane Goodall differences choices decision I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that. Jane Goodall children years thinking I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth. Jane Goodall sadness sin emotion I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild. Jane Goodall clothes care party I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years. Jane Goodall grief believe years I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it. Jane Goodall hours important believe Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty. Jane Goodall hate tragedy children If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen. Jane Goodall environment destruction children Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair. Jane Goodall compassion responsibility animal Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task. Jane Goodall stronger animal science
