“I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.”

—  Jane Goodall

Reported in Brad Dunn, "Change of Scenery", When They Were 22: 100 Famous People at the Turning Point in Their Lives (2006), p. 51

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British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934

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