Mother Nature

Jane Goodall turned 90 years old last April. In the late 1950's, Jane-then an English girl in her twenties-dared to travel to Africa. Jane arrived at Gombe on July 14, 1960, with her mother, who acted as Jane's chaperone.

On December 22, 1965, a Wednesday, "National Geographic" ran a televised documentary on Jane's work over the previous five years, entitled, "Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees."

I watched that special on my grandparents' black and white television.

Jane began, "Louis Leakey sent me to Gombe because he believed an understanding of chimpanzees would help him better guess how...