Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right. Jane Goodall More Quotes by Jane Goodall More Quotes From Jane Goodall Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food. Jane Goodall meat important today It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope. Jane Goodall pretty-picture environment reason We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people - how they feel, and what would be most meaningful for them. Jane Goodall voice talking meaningful Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young. Jane Goodall primates resources female You have to really care about what you say. And if you don't, it will never come out quite right, unless you go into acting, in which case you have to act fast before you realize it is something which you do not believe in. Jane Goodall care acting believe If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need? Jane Goodall animal people needs If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity. Jane Goodall different humanity culture I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change. Jane Goodall support people thinking We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could change our behavior really quickly instead of over hundreds and hundreds of years. And then comes moral evolution, which means we're not frightfully far along with people. And maybe we end up with a spiritual evolution, which is this connectedness with the rest of the life forms on the planet. Jane Goodall spiritual mean years If you educate women, family size tends to go down. Jane Goodall size educate ifs It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. Jane Goodall warfare form behavior Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal. Jane Goodall my-favorite too-much animal I feel a desperation to make people see what we are doing to the environment, what a mess we are making of our world. At this point, the more people I reach, the more I accomplish. ... I miss Gombe and my wonderful years in the forest But if I were to go back to that, I wouldn't feel I was doing what I should be doing. Jane Goodall our-world science years Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. Jane Goodall ignorance spiritual thinking At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing. Jane Goodall body brain writing I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize! Jane Goodall stories believe people Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. Jane Goodall want feelings animal 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 nature book people Lasting change is a series of compromises. Jane Goodall lasting-change lasting compromise I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it -- that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life. ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me. Jane Goodall karma giving believe
