Jane Goodall Quotes

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

I guess, growing up at Australia Zoo and getting to travel all over the world, I have this great outlook on life, and that's what I hope I inspire other kids to have.

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term study of the gorillas.

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.

I want to do a safari.

At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.