Jane Goodall's "next adventure"
Legendary primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall died at 91 of natural causes while in California on a U.S. speaking tour.
Her work documenting the behavior and remarkable intelligence of chimpanzees in East Africa made her one of the world's most famous scientists and a pioneer for women in her field.
💙 Words of wisdom: Here's what she told Axios' Bill Kole in an interview for his 2023 book about longevity, "The Big 100":
"Aging hasn't worried me, and death itself holds no fear for me at all. At a big lecture, somebody asked me what my next adventure would be. I'd never been asked that before. Maybe 10 years ago I would have said, 'Well, I want to go into the wild, unexplored jungles of some faraway country.'"
"But now, no. So, I said, 'Well, dying.' And there was a kind of gasp that went around this huge auditorium. But when you die, there's either nothing, in which case I don't have to worry anymore, or there's something. And if there's something, which I happen to believe, then what an adventure it'll be to discover what that is."
Source: Axis AM/Mike Allen
Oct 2, 2025
Her work documenting the behavior and remarkable intelligence of chimpanzees in East Africa made her one of the world's most famous scientists and a pioneer for women in her field.
💙 Words of wisdom: Here's what she told Axios' Bill Kole in an interview for his 2023 book about longevity, "The Big 100":
"Aging hasn't worried me, and death itself holds no fear for me at all. At a big lecture, somebody asked me what my next adventure would be. I'd never been asked that before. Maybe 10 years ago I would have said, 'Well, I want to go into the wild, unexplored jungles of some faraway country.'"
"But now, no. So, I said, 'Well, dying.' And there was a kind of gasp that went around this huge auditorium. But when you die, there's either nothing, in which case I don't have to worry anymore, or there's something. And if there's something, which I happen to believe, then what an adventure it'll be to discover what that is."
Source: Axis AM/Mike Allen
Oct 2, 2025
