![]() But then I do get a walk with the dogs and a fire in the evening with Judy, so that’s nice.įONDA: Yes, that makes a difference. GOODALL: It’s actually harder when I’m here, because I’ve got so much catching up and writing to do. Otherwise, I certainly wouldn’t do it.įONDA: Yeah, why live? But people say, “What does she do when she’s not doing all the traveling?” But your work is really your life, right? It’s not like work. ![]() GOODALL: I only do it because I feel I have to. And I’m gearing up for this dreaded two solid months touring in North America.įONDA: Yeah, I know what you mean by “dreaded.” I don’t know how you do it. I just got back from Holland, Abu Dhabi, and Tanzania. GOODALL: I’m actually in England, at my family house. JANE GOODALL: Two Janes! How lovely to hear your voice. Shortly before her 82nd birthday, Goodall spoke with another icon of conscientiousness, the actress and activist Jane Fonda, about her struggles and successes, and about how we are to escape a sixth extinction. This holistic approach-weaving together projects to protect great apes and the ecosystems they depend on with initiatives to bolster the societies living among them, for example-which is at the core of her Jane Goodall Institute, and its youth-focused program, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, has helped to pioneer our new way of thinking about conservation and preservation, and encouraged our belief in the possibility of achieving a greener, cleaner future.īorn in London and educated at Cambridge University’s Newnham College, Goodall was, she says, always destined to work with animals and the natural world-it was her beloved dog that first showed her the way-and still she brims over with enthusiasm and joy for her work. Since her landmark finding in 1960 that chimpanzees are able to make and employ tools in much the way we do, Goodall has expanded her scope and her influence by making that very interconnectedness the subject of her work. Whether it is with the chimpanzees in Tanzania, touring the world to raise money and awareness for her work in conservation and sustainable development, or at home in her native England, Goodall’s thought and interest and effectiveness reach across our often arbitrary thresholds of nationality, race, religion, ecosystems, and even species, to help broaden our understanding of one another and to deepen our connection with the whole. Jane Goodall has been living and working in a world beyond borders. JANE GOODALLįor more than half a century, Dr. You know, the beauty- and-the-beast-type thing. I think the very fact that I was a young, attractive woman brought the National Geographic Society in.
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