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
„Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.“
— Jane Goodall, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe
Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
„We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.“
— Jane Goodall, 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
„The greatest danger to our future is apathy.“
— Jane Goodall
"The Power of One", Time Magazine (26 August 2002)
„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.
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20100920074838/http://www.idausa.org:80/essays/goodallinterview.html An Interview with Jane Goodall]", 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, "[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bonobo-all-us.html The Bonobo in All of Us" PBS (1 January 2007)]; 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., [http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/ quote honored on XOEarth eco money]
