Through a Window Quotes

“I well remember writing to Louis about my first observations, describing how David Graybeard not only used bits of straw to fish for termites but actually stripped leaves from a stem and thus made a tool. And I remember too receiving the now oft-quoted telegram he sent in response to my letter: "Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans." There”
― Jane Goodall, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

“Our patterns of aggression are little changed from those that we see in chimpanzees. But while chimpanzees have, to some extent, an awareness of the pain which they may inflict on their victims, only we, I believe, are capable of real cruelty—the deliberate infliction of physical or mental pain on living creatures despite, or even because of, our precise understanding of the suffering involved. Only we are capable of torture. Only we, surely, are capable of evil.”
― Jane Goodall, Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

“Lake Tanganyika is said to be the largest body of uncontaminated water anywhere: it is the longest lake in the world and the second deepest.”
― Jane Goodall, Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

“Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease. Through”
― Jane Goodall, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe