People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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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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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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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