Frasi di Jane Goodall

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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.

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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.“

— Jane Goodall

Sui libri

„Ogni scimpanzè ha una personalità unica e ciascuno/a ha la propria storia individuale.“

— Jane Goodall

„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 scimpanzè, 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 scimpanzè...... stare a chiedersi se scimpanzè, 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.“

— Jane Goodall

Sulla vita, Sulla morte, Sul dolore, Sulla felicità

„You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.“

— Jane Goodall

„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

„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)

„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

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

— Jane Goodall

„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
Context: 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. " 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)

„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.“

— Jane Goodall
Context: 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. 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.

„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/