The Importance Of Being Influenced By Jane Goodall

While reading different essays addressing the topic of nature, I came to the conclusion that they all shared the idea that being outside can make an impact in everyone no matter if you believe you only belong in a city or forest because it can bring you serenity and show you all the amazing things you wouldn't be able to see anywhere else. In Wendell Berry’s essay “An Entrance to the Woods,” he states that people can use the quiet of the woods to forget all their problems. Berry wrote “One is that, though I am here in body, my mind and my nerves too are not yet altogether here. We seem to grant to our high-speed roads and our airlines the rather thoughtless assumption that people can change places as rapidly as their bodies can be transported.” Nature has a way to transport ones mind and spirit elsewhere while the body is left behind on earth as we travel deep into thought. Adding on to that idea, the essay “A City Person Encountering Nature” by Maxine Hong Kingston the author explains that nature is a giver of peace and patience with its slow cycles that may frustrate people, but help keep a sane mind. Society is fast paced, making everyone feel that they need to keep the same pace in order to get things done, but we don't realize that although our bodies are moving and pushing, our minds are exhausted and cannot keep up with the fast pace. Kingston wrote “Preferring the city myself, I can better discern natural phenomena when books point them out; I also need to verify

Jane Goodall is a historical woman that has taught human beings not only about chimpanzees, but human nature as well. This primatologist held on to a dream from childhood that advanced into reality. Jane quietly and patiently observed chimps in Africa, and then recorded their every move. Many important discoveries came about because of this. Jane Goodall has remarkably changed the perception of chimpanzees and humans alike.

Throughout the term, reading the book, “Through a Window” by Jane Goodall has been quite intriguing for me, in that it has inspired me with new ideas and perceptions about how our own species has evolved over time. I have really enjoyed seeing the many similarities that hominids share with other primate species, especially chimpanzees. Goodall’s research only further proves that we are not only extremely biologically similar to chimpanzees in our DNA, but have many behavioral similarities as well. The film, “Monkey in the Mirror” also shows support for our likeness in intellectuality. These documented findings on chimpanzee and human resemblances provides the strong evidence needed to conclude the fact that humans do indeed share a common ancestor with great apes.

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Imagine being tested on by scientists with unsafe products, or being abused just because you are another species. Jane Goodall stands against that. She believes that animals should have an equally happy life as humans, and that keeping a clean environment is a way to do it. Goodall has proven many people wrong through her research and discoveries. This is why Jane Goodall should be considered a hero, because of the work she has done that has positively affected the environment, animals lives, and what we have learned.

In context to reverting the process of habituation, Alain de Botton states,” I forced myself to obey a particular kind of mental command; to look around me as though I had never been in this place before. And slowly my travels began to bear fruit. Under the command to consider everything as of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value,” (De Botton, ). Here, he states that it is necessary to adapt a mindset in which you look at your surroundings and familiar objects from a way that one had previously not seen it before. By this, an individual can develop,” latent layers of value,” (De Botton, 63). Familiar objects in a habituated surrounding can exhibit deep, hidden meanings that one may not have realized before. At times it may feel like there is nothing to be discovered because one has become so habituated to one’s surroundings. Changing one’s perspective can reveal the true value of an object that had been long forgotten about. It can also remind an individual of the memories and experiences related to the object. When adapting an “open-minded mindset,” an individual can help differentiate between the ordinary and the extraordinary

A woman who is most commonly known for her vast knowledge and interest in the primate of our world is Jane Goodall. She is a renowned British primatologist and ethologist who is an enthusiastic activist on the behalf of animals and the natural environment. Goodall has used her interest in such a way that it has bettered the primate species, in particular the chimpanzees, and has had an extremely positive impact of the animal world to this date.

In the third grade, my life was altered when I read an abbreviated biography about Jane Goodall the primatologist. I have always had a passion for discovering the world around me, specifically the animals and environment, but Goodall elevated my own desire for exploration to a new level. I was struck by a young female scientist pursuing her dreams in the field of biology and the significant impact she had in the scientific world. Jane Goodall managed to bring passion and emotion to her observations of chimpanzees at a time when observational science was extremely concerned about remaining objective. She silently proved every critic of hers wrong by showing the world that she was not too young, too inexperienced, or too female to change the

In the book the The Ten Trust, Jane Goodall and Mark Bekoff teach us in the fourth trust that we as humans take advantage of nature and our animals. Instead of showing humility toward them both, we abuse them. “The Fourth Trust concerns the need to provide the right experiences for our children as they grow up (Goodall 68).” It all starts with the way we are raised, children need to learn from their parents so it can be passed down generations on how to respect, love, and have humility towards our animals and nature. We as humans can learn a lot from animals and nature, if we just opened our minds and hearts to understand them both. “Children’s relationship to animals, then, can be a means of teaching compassion and kindness or, alternatively,

The environment can have a positive impact on a person’s health. However, in order for that to happen we have to put ourselves in a place where we can get those positive responses. Sternberg explains that everyone needs to heal. Our senses allow us to heal, so nature plays a very important role in our life. We have to go somewhere that feels welcoming to us, somewhere where we can find peace, such as walking through gardens.

Thoreau wished to open the minds of many revealing the importance of nature “Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails” (Thoreau II). In the quote, Thoreau discusses how he learned to live deliberately in nature encouraging other members of society to do the same. He has learned that it can lead to harmonization with oneself, to

Botton explores the state of dissatisfaction individuals face when arriving at places of familiarity. Botton appreciates the need for travel to explore new landscapes expressing his ‘despair to be home. I felt there could be few worse places on earth than the one I have been fated to spend my existence in’. Due to lack of curiosity, individuals are ‘forced to obey the peculiar kind of mental command: to look around me as though I had never been in this place before. And slowly, my travels began to bear fruit’.

World is that place where we find people, nature, animals and secretes. We are often curious about things around us. There are questions like-“are we enough courageous to know the truth or to save the priceless properties?”

This report will investigate on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of Jane Goodall Institute Hong Kong by personal observation and experience in the organization. The report will first illustrate different factors affecting the organization in the four dimensions of SWOT. Through screening strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, it will help me to draw insights from its current strategies of exploiting the advantages and dealing with the disadvantages. Recommendations for its further development will also be outlined at the end of this paper.

Jane Goodall is a famous biological anthropologist who was born on April 3, 1934. At a young age, Jane Goodall dreamed of traveling to Africa. This dream stems from her fascination of observing wild animals in their natural habitats. When she was 18 years old, she left school and found a job as a secretary at Oxford University. Later, she was able to meet Louis Leakey through some connections; Leakey hired her as a secretary. Leakey believed that in order to gather more information on the evolution of humans a study on the behaviour of higher primates, specifically chimpanzees, must be conducted. Leakey had faith that Goodall would be able to conduct this research study, so he encouraged and persuaded her to take on such an expedition. So,