I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLI never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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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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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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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?
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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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