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 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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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
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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 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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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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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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