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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

Jane Goodall

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Life Ourselves Place World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
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.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Book Carry Myself Nature Peace People
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Save Understand
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Myself People Savage
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death Eyes Hope Mental Misery Myself Prison Support Talk
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALL

Beginning Excitement Life Myself Time
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
JANE GOODALL

Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Force People Powerful Young
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALL

Human Love Ourselves Potential
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Last Right Value
I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
JANE GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Human Myself Sin Worst
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Dream Forget People

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