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.
JANE GOODALLBut 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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 can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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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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