Frases de Jane Goodall

„[La destrucción del hábitat] “está a menudo vinculada a la codicia y el materialismo del mundo desarrollado.”“

—  Jane Goodall

„Lo que haces marca la diferencia y tienes que decidir qué tipo de diferencia quieres marcar.“

—  Jane Goodall

„Ahora que finalmente nos hemos dado cuenta del terrible daño que hemos ocasionado al medio ambiente, estamos extremando nuestro ingenio para hallar soluciones tecnológicas.“

—  Jane Goodall

„Los seres humanos son más compasivos. En el caso del chimpancé se puede ver la compasión entre la madre y su cría, pero rara vez se halla en algún otro aspecto. La compasión es una característica muy humana.“

—  Jane Goodall

Después de estar viviendo con los chimpancés durante 22 años, tanto ella como sus colegas todavía están aprendiendo cosas nuevas acerca de estos simios.
Fuente: En una entrevista por WWF News (Fondo Mundial para la Vida Silvestre).

„[El estudiar a los chimpancés] […] ‘me ha ayudado a comprender, tal vez más que ninguna otra cosa, lo diferentes que somos de ellos’.“

—  Jane Goodall

Fuente: En una entrevista por WWF News (Fondo Mundial para la Vida Silvestre).

„Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.“

—  Jane Goodall

Fuente: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

„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— and the journey to get there— before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death.“

—  Jane Goodall

The Ten Trusts (2003), p. xv

„But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.“

—  Jane Goodall

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (2000), p. 215

„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

Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/

„Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?“

—  Jane Goodall

„Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?“

—  Jane Goodall

Fuente: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

„What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.“

—  Jane Goodall

„The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.“

—  Jane Goodall

As quoted in Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands (2010) by Cathryn Berger Kaye and Philippe Cousteau, p. 14

„We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.“

—  Jane Goodall

Fuente: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

„Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.“

—  Jane Goodall

Reported in Yolanda Brooks, Do Animals Have Rights? (2008), p. 23

„We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother“

—  Jane Goodall

„In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.“

—  Jane Goodall

"Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap", in Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (1996), p. 14

„Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.“

—  Jane Goodall

Harvest for Hope (2006)

„Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.“

—  Jane Goodall

" An Interview with Jane Goodall https://web.archive.org/web/20100920074838/http://www.idausa.org:80/essays/goodallinterview.html", In Defense of Animals (date unknown)
Contexto: 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.