Frasi di Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall
Data di nascita: 3. Aprile 1934
Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, meglio nota come Jane Goodall , è un'etologa e antropologa inglese.
È nota soprattutto per la sua ricerca sulla vita sociale e familiare degli scimpanzé. Dirige l'organizzazione Jane Goodall Institute, che si occupa dello studio e della protezione dei primati in diverse zone del mondo.
Frasi Jane Goodall
„Sono molto rari i libri destinati a cambiare il nostro modo di pensare. Questo libro di Tom Regan è uno di quelli. Gabbie vuote è convincente perché argomenta in modo logico e razionale e perché scritto in uno stile semplice ed elegante allo stesso tempo.“
Origine: Citato in Tom Regan, Gabbie vuote: la sfida dei diritti animali, traduzione di Massimo Filippi e Alessandra Galbiati, Edizioni Sonda, Casale Monferrato, 2005, quarta di copertina. ISBN 88-7106-425-9
„Certamente non siamo gli unici animali che vivono l'esperienza del dolore e della sofferenza. In altre parole, non c'è una linea netta tra l'animale uomo e il resto del regno animale. È una linea indistinta e lo sarà sempre…
La paura in una scimmia, un cane, un maiale, viene vissuta verosimilmente alla stessa maniera della specie umana. Giovani animali, umani o di altre specie, mostrano, difatti, comportamenti simili quando sono ben nutriti e sicuri – sono vivaci, saltellano, fanno piroette, rimbalzano, fanno capriole – tanto che è difficile non credere che non provino sentimenti molto simili. Essi sono, in altre parole, pieni di gioia di vivere – sono felici… un giovane scimpanzé, dopo la morte della sua mamma, mostra un comportamento simile alla depressione che affligge i bambini – postura incurvata, dondolio, occhi offuscati fissi nel vuoto, perdita di interesse per quanto accade attorno a sé. Se un piccolo d'uomo può soffrire di dolore, così può soffrire un giovane scimpanzé…
…stare a chiedersi se scimpanzé, elefanti, cani e così via, sperimentino felicità, tristezza, disperazione, rabbia, è uno spreco di tempo – poiché queste cose sono evidenti a chiunque abbia… sperimentato nella sua vita una conoscenza degli animali.“
Origine: Da Premessa, in Marc Bekoff, La vita emozionale degli animali; citato in Marini, [//books.google.it/books?id=fDaVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 p. 185].
„Ogni scimpanzé ha una personalità unica e ciascuno/a ha la propria storia individuale.“
Origine: Da Gli scimpanzé: un ponte da gettare, in Il Progetto Grande Scimmia; citato in Marini, [//books.google.it/books?id=fDaVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 p. 183].
„Sono determinata a far sì che i miei pronipoti possano andare in Africa e trovare scimmie antropomorfe selvatiche.“
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro dell'ecologia, traduzione di Roberto Sorgo, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 125. ISBN 9788858024362
„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?“
Origine: 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.“
Origine: 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
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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