And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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Peace starts within.
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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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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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People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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