I couldn't be a bigger fan of Honorary Doctor of Science, Dame Jane Goodall.

I learned about her as a kid. I think it might have been with a Schoolastic book or something. After that, I heard about her off and on for many, many years. Mostly in talk show appearances, which she continued to appear in until quite recently...

Wonderful.

It's remarkable to think about how she started her career over 60 years ago when she was 26 years old...

And never stopped. Becoming a legend in the conservation of chimpanzees and their habitats...

But what made me really fall in love with Jane was after Gary Larson made a cartoon around her in The Far Side...

Somebody from her institute lost their shit and fired off a scathing letter, incessed that somebody would dare to call Jane Goodall a "tramp." Which, of course, is not at all what's happening in the cartoon. But, well, you know... some people are easily set off.

But not Jane Goodall, who said that she found the cartoon funny. She said that it was her favorite rendition of her in pop culture. Which is probably why she wrote an introduction to one of Larson's The Far Side Gallery books.

And why Gary Larson visited Goodall's lab in Tanzania.

And why Gary Larson let Jane put the cartoon on a shirt and let her keep all profits for her institute...

It's difficult not to be saddened by her passing, but more difficult to not feel amazed by what she did with her 91 years on earth...

Rest in Peace.

Your humanity towards wildlife made you more human than most.