Chimpanzees Quotes

• The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

  Jane Goodall

  Best Relationship, Mutual, Mutual Trust

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

  Frans de Waal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

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• Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

  Jared Diamond

  Gorillas, Way, Humans

  Jared Diamond (2014). “The Third Chimpanzee”, p.20, Oneworld Publications

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• 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

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• When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

  Bob Waterston

  Views, Looks, Evolution

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  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

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• Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

  Kin Hubbard

  Science, Evolution, Folks

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• I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Reality, Moon

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• When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

  Frans de Waal

  Intelligent, Social, Interaction

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Emotional, Long

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

  Adriaan Kortlandt

  Beautiful, Sunset, Animal

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• Chimpanzees can be quite political.

  Jane Goodall

  Political

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Fun, Parenting

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• The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

  Frans de Waal

  Tears, Stronger

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave 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

  Successful, Fantastic Life, Years

  Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.

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• 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.

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• We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Apes, Asian, Orangutans

  A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2003, p. 22,

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• Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

  Ted Turner

  Two, Hair, Religion

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• The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Kissing, Differences

  "Even Chimps Understand Sustainability". Interview with Philip Bethge and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. October 7, 2015.

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• The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Speaks Out, Prison

  Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• 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

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• 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, Important, May

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

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• Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

  Martin Gardner

  Science, Skills, Brain

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• Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

  Jane Goodall

  Long, Understanding, Forests

  "Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Animal Activist". Book by Connie Jankowski, 2009.

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• Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

  Russell Banks

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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