Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.
Jane GoodallIn a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.
Jane GoodallIf a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?
Jane GoodallOther people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.
Jane GoodallThe problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.
Jane Goodall