Frases de Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
Fecha de nacimiento: 3. Abril 1934
Dame Jane Morris Goodall es una primatóloga, etóloga, antropóloga y mensajera de la paz de la ONU inglesa. Se le considera la mayor experta en chimpancés, y es conocida por su estudio de 55 años de duración sobre las interacciones sociales y familiares de los chimpancés salvajes en el Parque nacional Gombe Stream en Tanzania. Es la fundadora del Instituto Jane Goodall y el programa Roots & Shoots . Ha trabajado extensivamente en asuntos de conservación y bienestar animal. Pertenece al comité del Proyecto de los Derechos No Humanos desde su fundación en 1996.
Frases Jane Goodall
„La tecnología por sí sola no basta. También tenemos que poner el corazón.“
en referencia al calentamiento global que es tan solo uno de los muchos problemas ecológicos que se le plantean a la humanidad.
„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.“
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’.“
Fuente: En una entrevista por WWF News (Fondo Mundial para la Vida Silvestre).
„The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet.“
"The Power of One", TIME Magazine (26 August 2002) http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003125,00.html
„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?“
Fuente: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

„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.“
"Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap", in Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (1996), p. 14
„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.“
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/
„Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.“
Reported in Yolanda Brooks, Do Animals Have Rights? (2008), p. 23
„We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.“
Fuente: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
„I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior.“
Frans de Waal, in a NOVA interview, " The Bonobo in All of Us" PBS (1 January 2007) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bonobo-all-us.html; quotes from this interview were for some time misplaced on this page, which probably generated similar misattributions elsewhere, and the misplacement was not discovered until after this quotation had been selected for Quote of the Day, as a quote of Goodall. Corrections were subsequently made here, during the day the quote was posted as QOTD.
Misattributed
Contexto: I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior. This completely changes the perspective, if you start thinking that actually we tap into our biological resources to become moral beings. That gives a completely different view of ourselves than this nasty selfish-gene type view that has been promoted for the last 25 years.
„Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.“
" 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.
„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.“
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