Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.
Jane GoodallI think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.
Jane GoodallAnimals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.
Jane GoodallWords 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 Goodall