Vanne not only felt compelled to reflect Jane’s gift to her. She felt a responsibility to The Gift. I suspect that Vanne had not read the Bhagavad Gita, but there she would have found this very teaching. We have a responsibility to The Gift. The Gift is God in disguise. In Jane Goodall we have a fairly uncommon example of a life in which just about everything was working to support dharma. But isn’t it good to know that these things can happen? “I had a mother who not only tolerated but also encouraged my passion for nature and animals and who, even more important, taught me to believe in
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