Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
JANE GOODALLThat 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?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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