There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALLWe have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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.
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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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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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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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Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Peace starts within.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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