We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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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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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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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 never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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