From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
JANE GOODALLWe have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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How 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.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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