What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
Jane GoodallI don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when Iโm out in nature. Itโs just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me.
Jane GoodallMost Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.
Jane GoodallCultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the โglobal villageโ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.
Jane Goodall