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I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
Environmentalist
Ethologist
Primatologist
University Teacher
Writer
Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Dame Jane Goodall
Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.
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I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
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If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
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