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I am obstinate and I will not give in.

Jane Goodall

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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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If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
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It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.
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I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.
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Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
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It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.
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Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
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Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
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As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.
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