Jane Goodall Quotes About Personality
-
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.
→ -
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
→ -
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.
→ -
I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.
→ -
To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.
→ -
Of course animals have a personality and emotions.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→
Related Authors
-
George Schaller Biologist -
Louis Leakey Archaeologist -
Frans de Waal Primatologist -
Farley Mowat Author -
Gary Larson Cartoonist -
Mary Leakey Archaeologist -
Sigourney Weaver Actress -
Amelia Earhart Aviator -
Marie Curie Physicist -
Rachel Carson Marine biologist -
Charles Darwin Naturalist -
Wangari Maathai Political Activist -
Rosalind Franklin Scientist -
Marc Bekoff Professor -
E. O. Wilson Biologist -
Richard Leakey Politician -
Dian Fossey Zoologist -
James Hansen Professor -
David Attenborough Broadcaster -
Sylvia Earle Explorer