I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees … - Jane Goodall

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No matter how hard you train, Somebody will train harder. No matter how hard you run, Somebody will run harder. No matter how hard you want it, Somebody will want it more, I am Somebody.

Jane Goodall

I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before. They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.

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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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It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

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There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

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From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

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