Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALLSometimes 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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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.
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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.
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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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