Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 April 1934
CityLondon, England
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.
I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.
Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise.
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.
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?
In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.
I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.
Of course animals have a personality and emotions.
Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.
A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.
If you educate women, family size tends to go down.
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.