We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALLHere was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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