Jane Goodall

Jane Van Lawick-Goodall
(April 3, 1934 - )
primatologist, scientist, chimpanzee researcher and observer

Originally brought to Africa to work with Louis Leakey, Goodall began her work with chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Reserve in 1970. By close observation, she documented the social organization of chimps in the wild, including their social nature, their tool-making, their occasional systematic killing of one another, their hierarchy and their social development.

She's also worked for the conservation of chimpanzees in the wild and for better conditions for chimps in zoos and research institutions, through speaking and writing, raising funds, and through the Jane Goodall Institute.




Selected Jane Goodall Quotations:
"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."

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

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."

"If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way."

"That I did not fail was due in part to patience...."

What should we learn from her is her patience to get close to a group of chimpanzee after 18 months and think about her passion towards her love to the chimpanzee. Without her, we still lack of knowledge of a brother who is only 1.4% genetically different from us.

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