Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALLThe 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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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.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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So, 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.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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