"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."
"You cannot share your life with a dog ... or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings."
"Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment."
When Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to study chimpanzees in 1960, they ran away from her in fear. One chimp eventually stopped fearing her and would come to her camp looking for bananas. She called the chimpanzee David Greybeard due to his grey facial hair. Once Greybeard became comfortable with Goodall, he allowed her to groom him and observe him using tools, which shocked the science community at the time since humans were considered the only species to make use of tools.
Photo from the Goodall Institute
Excerpt from a CBS interview:
Goodall filled stacks of journals with notes.
"I transcribed these every night," she said.
"Wow, look at this, '37, 38, 39, 40 …' Every minute you were noting the behaviors of some animal."
"Yes, and shorthand, like 'F' would be 'Feed.'" (from CBS News)