Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jane Goodall (British Ethologist)

Jane Goodall (b.1934,) originally Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, is a British ethologist. She is celebrated for her extraordinarily thorough research on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

Born in London, Goodall worked in Kenya with the anthropologist Louis Leakey, obtained her PhD from Cambridge in 1965, and consequently set up the Gombe Stream Research Centre in Tanzania. She has been a visiting professor at the department of psychiatry and program of human biology at Stanford University (1971–75) and visiting professor of zoology at Dares Salaam (1973–.)

Since 1967, Goodall has been the scientific director of the Gombe Wildlife Research Institute. Her studies of the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees have transformed the understanding of the complexity of primate behavior. She established that chimpanzees modify a variety of natural objects to use as tools and weapons, and showed that they hunt monkeys, baboon infants, bush pig, bushbuck, and other small mammals for meat. Goodall has also chronicled the social development of the chimpanzee individual in the community, together with the histories of chimpanzee families.

Goodall is active in chimpanzee conservation in Africa and founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Research Education and Conservation with centers in America, Canada, and Britain.

Goodall’s many books about her experiences with the chimpanzees include In the Shadow of Man (1971,) The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior (1986,) and The Chimpanzee: The Living Link Between ‘Man’ and ‘Beast’ (1992.)

Jane, a documentary about her life and work, appeared in 2017. Dale Peterson wrote the biography Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man (2006.)

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

You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves. How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility? And what, ultimately, is our human destiny?
Jane Goodall
Topics: Spirituality

Amazing moments—when you seem to know something beyond what you know and to understand things you don’t understand—can’t be understood in this life.
Jane Goodall
Topics: Spirituality

Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.
Jane Goodall
Topics: Vegetarianism

I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
Jane Goodall
Topics: Spirituality

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