Jane Goodall Quotes About Personality

Quotes about: Personality

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

• To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

  Jane Goodall

  Personality, Tree

  "Jane Goodall Plants 'Seeds Of Hope'". "Here & Now" with Robin Young, news.stlpublicradio.org.

• I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Personality

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Personality, Emotion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

  Jane Goodall

  Baby, Responsibility, Personality

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

• Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Personality, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Eye, Thinking

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

• Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Strong, Animal, Personality

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