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There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.
- Jane Goodall
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In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.
- Jane Goodall
#Enough
#Giving
#Money
#Save
#Trying
I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.
- Jane Goodall
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#Famous
#Me
#People
As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.
- Jane Goodall
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#Beautiful
#Children
#Look
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.
- Jane Goodall
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#Love
#Me
#Remember
#Tears
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
- Jane Goodall
#Animals
#Like
#More
#People
#Some People
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
- Jane Goodall
#Dreams
#Family
#Life
#Look
#Me
I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.
- Jane Goodall
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#Time
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#World
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
- Jane Goodall
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#Green
#Sad
#Sky
#Tree
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.
- Jane Goodall
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#Development
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#Green
#Time
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.
- Jane Goodall
#Courage
#Important
#Mother
#People
#Us
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.
- Jane Goodall
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#Mind
#Today
#Together
#World
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.
- Jane Goodall
#Fear
#I Am
#Perspective
#Power
#Strength
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.
- Jane Goodall
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#Never
#Science
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#Women
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.
- Jane Goodall
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#Harmony
#Living
#Never
#Way
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
- Jane Goodall
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#Human
#Language
#Questions
#Us
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
- Jane Goodall
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#Change
#Doing
#Listening
#Right
I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.
- Jane Goodall
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#Hope
#Important
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#Mind
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
- Jane Goodall
#Anger
#Bitterness
#Go
#Truth
#Words
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
- Jane Goodall
#Done
#Feelings
#Know
#Life
#Pet
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