Top 307 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Goodall - Page 6

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.