Jane Goodall
"In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes."
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"In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes."
"كيف ينبغي لنا أن نتصور هذه الكائنات، غير البشرية وإن كانت تمتلك الكثير من السمات الشبيهة بالإنسان؟ وكيف ينبغي لنا أن نعاملها؟ لا شك أننا يجب أن نعاملها بنفس القدر من الاعتبار واللطف الذي نوليه للبشر الآخرين؛ وكما نُقرّ حقوق الإنسان، فكذلك ينبغي لنا أن نُقرّ حقوق القردة العليا؟ نعم."
Jane Goodall
"When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan."
"حين بلغتُ العاشرة من عمري، كنتُ أحب الكتب، بل أهواها. وكنتُ أتردد على مكتبة الكتب المستعملة. ذات يوم، عثرتُ على كتاب صغير، بالكاد كان ثمنه في متناول يدي، فاشتريته وعدتُ به إلى المنزل. تسلقتُ شجرتي المفضلة، وقرأتُ ذلك الكتاب من غلافه إلى غلافه. لقد كان "طرزان قردة الغابة". وعلى الفور، وقعتُ في غرام طرزان."
Jane Goodall
"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."
"التغيير يبدأ بالإنصات، ثم بمحاورة أولئك الذين يفعلون ما لا تراه صوابًا."
Jane Goodall
"As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job."
"في طفولتي الباكرة بإنجلترا، راودني حلم الذهاب إلى إفريقيا. لم يكن لدينا مال وكنت فتاة، لذا سخر الجميع من حلمي إلا أمي. وحين تركت المدرسة، لم يكن هناك مال يكفيني للجامعة، فالتحقت بكلية السكرتارية وحصلت على وظيفة."
Jane Goodall
"The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky."
"الشجرة التي كانت لي في حديقة طفولتي، زانتي، كنت أتسلقها وأمضي الساعات بين أغصانها. حملت إليها واجباتي وكتبي، ولجأت إليها كلما اعتراني الحزن، فكان صعودي إليها بين أوراقها الخضراء والطيور والسماء يغمرني بشعور عميق بالراحة والسكينة."
Jane Goodall
"I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change."
"أنا لست منخرطًا بعمق في السياسة الأسترالية، لكنني أعلم أن هناك رؤساء وزراء وحكومات حول العالم لا يتصرفون بمسؤولية تجاه تغير المناخ."
Jane Goodall
"My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions."
"كانت أمي دائمًا تعلمنا أنه إذا اختلف الناس معك، فالمهم هو أن تستمع إليهم. ولكن إذا استمعت إليهم بعناية وما زلت تعتقد أنك على صواب، فعليك أن تتحلى بشجاعة قناعاتك."
Jane Goodall
"Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around."
"تُقال الكلمات بمرارة وغضب، وغالبًا ما يبدو أن في قسوتها شذرة من الحقيقة. لكن الكلمات لا تتلاشى، بل تظل تتردد أصداؤها."
Jane Goodall
"You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings."
"لا يمكنك أن تشارك حياتك مع كلب، كما فعلت في بورنموث، أو قطة، ولا تدرك تماماً أن للحيوانات شخصيات وعقولاً ومشاعر."
Jane Goodall
"My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names."
"كانت أمي تقول دائمًا: "لو كنتِ فتاة صغيرة ترعرعتِ في مصر، لذهبتِ إلى الكنيسة أو عبدتِ الله، ولكن من المؤكد أن هؤلاء الناس إذا كانوا يعبدون إلهًا، فلا بد أنه الإله نفسه" – هذا ما كانت تقوله دائمًا. الإله نفسه بأسماء مختلفة."
Jane Goodall
"I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil."
"نشأتُ على فهم نظرية داروين في التطور. أمضيتُ ساعاتٍ طوالًا في متحف التاريخ الطبيعي بلندن، أتأملُ شروحاتِ تطور أنواع الحيوانات المختلفة، وأتتبعُ تسلسلَ العظام الأحفورية التي بدتْ تتشابهُ شيئًا فشيئًا، وبشكلٍ متزايدٍ، مع الأحفورة الحديثة."
Jane Goodall
"It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet."
"لقد أثبتت دراسات عديدة أن للنباتات أثراً إيجابياً في نمونا النفسي. فإذا ما خضّرت منطقة ما، انخفض معدل الجريمة فيها. وضحايا التعذيب يبدأون بالتعافي حين يقضون وقتاً في حديقة مزهرة. لذا فنحن بحاجة إليها، بحس نفسي عميق، لا أظن أن أحداً قد أدركه تماماً بعد."
Jane Goodall
"I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky."
"أحنّ إلى الأيام الأولى، نعم. كنت محظوظة للغاية. لقد كان لي وحدي تقريباً، أتعلم عن هذه الشمبانزي. لم يكن أحد يعرف شيئاً عنها. أكتشف شخصياتها المختلفة، وتاريخ حياتها المتنوع. كنت محظوظة."
Jane Goodall
"My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl."
"في عائلتي نساءٌ قويّاتٌ جدًّا. أمّي لم تضحك قطّ على حلمي بأفريقيا، رغم أن الجميع فعلوا، لأننا لم نملك مالًا، ولأن أفريقيا كانت "القارة المظلمة"، ولأنني كنت فتاة."
Jane Goodall
"As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is."
Jane Goodall
"The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil."
Jane Goodall
"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."
Jane Goodall
"Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that."
Jane Goodall
"I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me."
Jane Goodall
"I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them."
Jane Goodall
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