It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
JANE GOODALLWe have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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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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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
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