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.
JANE GOODALLHow can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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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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