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You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.
Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.
When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.
At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.
If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.
Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.
I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.
A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.
Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
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.
The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests
People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.
The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.
A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.
There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!
Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.
It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.
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.
I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.
I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.
I had this wonderful, supportive mother who didn't get mad because of all the earth mucking up my bed. She just said they'd die - they needed the earth.
I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.
If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.
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.
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.
Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.
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.
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.
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.
That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a better place."