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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

Jane Goodall

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALL

Human Love Ourselves Potential
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.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Live Love Ourselves Play Respect Responsibility Role Worth
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 GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Deep Difference Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Dog Love Myself Perspective Thinking
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.
JANE GOODALL

Company Enjoyment Laughter Myself Thinking
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.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Force People Powerful Young
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Live
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALL

Nature Win
It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALL

Deep Difficult Oppression Woman
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
JANE GOODALL

Fun Help Justice
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 GOODALL

Darkness Food Goodness Ourselves Poison
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Enough Feeling God Greatness Ideas Myself Power Spiritual
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
JANE GOODALL

Children Fun Learning Oneself

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