Jane Goodall Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Sadness, Animal

  "Do Dogs Really Feel Pain and Are They Really Conscious?" by Marc Bekoff, www.psychologytoday.com. June 21, 2012.

• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

• There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Earth Day

• Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

  Jane Goodall

  Relationship, Nature, Animal

• If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  God, Spiritual, Compassion

• The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Aug 26, 2016

• Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, Effort

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Dog, Teacher, Animal

• Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.

  Jane Goodall

  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

• Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

  Jane Goodall

  Kindness, Animal, Intelligent

• I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Animal, Pushing

• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Science, Animal

• We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

  Jane Goodall

  Attitude, Compassion, Animal

• Having respect for animals makes us better humans.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Humans

• Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

  Jane Goodall

  Passion, Animal, Speak

  Interview with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

• The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Men, Pet

  "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe". Book by Jane Goodall, 2000.

• I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.

  Jane Goodall

  Humility, Animal, Thinking

  "Jane Goodall on Bigfoot, Chimpanzees and Her education". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

• 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

  Girl, Dream, College

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

• I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Empathy, Feelings

• It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, People

• If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Science, Animal

• There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Compassion, Groups

• It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

  Jane Goodall

  Country, Attitude, Animal

• I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Want, Study

• When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Individuality, Intuition

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