SOULSTRIPPING

Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s a very blurry line, and it’s getting more blurry all the time.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

If 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.

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Jane Goodall  (B.1934)

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (Born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall) formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist.

Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Jane Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees which began when she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960.

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