I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.
Jane GoodallChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane GoodallCertainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
Jane GoodallIf only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.
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