400 Quotes by Jane Goodall

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

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.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

If we haven't educated people like this young man,

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.