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The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Jane Goodall is The Visionary because her life's work as a primatologist and conservationist has always operated on horizons longer than any institution's planning cycle. She leads by reframing how people see the natural world and their obligations within it, converting scientific insight into moral imagination.
“Walk by the supermod And I'm looking, looking down the car and okay, that grandmother with no teeth. Eating the crackers out of her purse. There's the winner. Walk up, sit down next to the grandma. Let's say we're in Hungary. And this happened in many cultures.”
“Was a success in that, you know, I had a little story like that. And people could understand something about Gorbachev that they might never have known. But for me, when I look back on it, what I realized was the power of the first question going straight to the heart and not the head.”
“He had actually reached out to me, and again, this went back to University of Missouri journalism, that's where he had gone to school. So I found all through my travels, this school and its network, I was always linked to them in some way. And you knew who was really good from that school. Everybody knew it.”
“Send them over. And like Julio is a very, he's a fun-loving guy. So, you know, it was maybe he saw it as a joke. I don't know. And so at this point, it's like months I've been training. Now, you look at my body, man. I got a six-pack. And now I'm getting in a ring.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Jane Goodall”
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