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 GOODALLThe greatest danger to our future is apathy.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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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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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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