The Jane Effect by Dale Peterson

Author:Dale Peterson [Peterson, Dale; Bekoff, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781595342546
Publisher: Trinity University Press

LINDA F. MARCHANT, professor of anthropology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has studied wild chimpanzees and bonobos in Tanzania, Uganda, Sénégal, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

To Jane Goodall

CAROL GIGLIOTTI

Dear Jane,

I only met you once, in the early ’80s at a reception for an award you were receiving from the Animal Welfare Institute in Washington, DC. I was already committed to animal rights and was a visual artist whose work was about factory farming and vivisection. Now I write, and all my writing is about animals.

After the ceremony, people lined up to talk to you. I joined the line, wanting to tell you how important your work with and for animals was to me. When I finally reached you, you gave me all your attention. In fact, I was bowled over by your astonishing ability to listen to this person you did not know, and I came away with a desire to foster that same quiet focus in myself. I don’t remember what was said, but how I felt when talking to you was something I value to this day.

I have been a teacher for the last thirty years, and I have cultivated that listening ability you taught me in interactions with my students, with animals, and with human friends and family. I want to thank you for allowing me a glimpse into a very different way of being in the world. Your example has given me much joy and satisfaction and has taught me a fruitful path to compassion. It was a huge gift and I thank you for it.

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