400 Quotes by Jane Goodall

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.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.