Political Quotes

“in fond memory of Dame Jane Goodall, 1934-2025, Explorers Club Fellow, Honorary Member, and Explorers Club Medalist, by L. M. Levie: There's a tale explorers tell, of a girl with drive and dreams, Who was born in Hampstead, London in a home of modest means, With a small toy chimp named Jubilee clutched close against her heart, And a yearning for the wilderness, imprinted from the start. She would read of Doctor Dolittle and apes of Tarzan's land, While her mother, kind and gentle, held her daughter's reaching hand. Though she had no lofty pedigree from university, Jane set out upon a mission that would change humanity. Jane would save all of her wages, every shilling, pence and pound, And she booked a ship to Africa, to Kenya she was bound. In the camp of Louis Leakey, digging age-old skulls from earth, He found something in her manner, recognized her hidden worth. "You shall study chimpanzees in the wilds of Gombe Stream, You shall live among the primates and fulfill your childhood dream." So at twenty-six she ventured to Tanzania's lake shore, Where no woman dared go solo, where no scholar went before. And at first the chimps would scatter, running fearful through the trees, But she sat there day and nighttime under sun and rain and breeze.…”