Gombe Quotes

#1. When I go back to Gombe it's to be in that timeless world where it's soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around.

Jane Goodall

#2. I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Jane Goodall

#3. Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease. Through

Jane Goodall

#4. I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

Jane Goodall

#5. All of us, try to eliminate risk from our lives. The sad thing about risk is that when you eliminate risk you also eliminate the future.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination.

Ernest Gellner

#7. An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

James A. Baldwin

#8. I was talking too much, and I knew I was talking too much, but I couldn't stop. It was like my brain had been cut open, and every thought inside was spilling out on the floor.

Dan Wells

#9. In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. - Paloma

Muriel Barbery

#11. If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!

Charles M. Schulz