Jane Goodall — "The natural world is our greatest teacher, and we should listen to its lessons."
The natural world is our greatest teacher, and we should listen to its lessons.
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"Chimpanzees have taught me that the difference between us and them is not as big as we once thought."
"My greatest hope is that we can learn to live in peace with all creatures."
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved."
"We are a part of the natural world, and when we destroy it, we destroy ourselves."
"I often think about what the chimpanzees would say if they could talk. I think they'd tell us to be kinder to each other, and to the planet."
About Jane Goodall (born 1934)
British primatologist who in 1960 began the longest-running wild primate study at Gombe Stream, transforming our understanding of chimpanzees. Closely associated with Dian Fossey (mountain-gorilla researcher) and Birutė Galdikas (orangutan researcher; together with Goodall and Fossey one of Louis Leakey's 'Trimates'). For an intellectual contrast, see Walter Palmer, American dentist who killed Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015 — Palmer represents the trophy-hunting tradition Goodall's life's work has been organized against — the colonial-era hunter-naturalist worldview that treated primates and big game as specimens or trophies, which Goodall's Roots & Shoots and Jane Goodall Institute exist specifically to displace.