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?
JANE GOODALLSo, 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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Peace starts within.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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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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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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