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 If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes. Jane Goodall plant wish way every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change. Jane Goodall differences decision responsibility Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that. Jane Goodall cold taught way I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon. Jane Goodall icons mean people There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade. Jane Goodall wildlife way world When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back. Jane Goodall pay children people You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything. Jane Goodall parent expression children It may sound trite, but young people really are the future. Jane Goodall sound may people When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money. Jane Goodall leader animal people If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim. Jane Goodall average today water Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work. Jane Goodall waiting brain heart In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart. Jane Goodall clever brain heart Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet? Jane Goodall communication intelligent moon I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting. Jane Goodall decision today people Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps. Jane Goodall risk soldier thinking Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way. Jane Goodall fighting games war I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood. Jane Goodall stirring felt blood There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between. Jane Goodall good-mother mother I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another. Jane Goodall personality animal I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. Jane Goodall faithful want thinking
