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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Deep Difference Yourself
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALL

Beginning Excitement Life Myself Time
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Ourselves Place
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Support Talk Voice
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.
JANE GOODALL

Live Personality Rise Tree Young
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
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.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Enough Feeling God Greatness Ideas Myself Power Spiritual
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Myself People Savage
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.
JANE GOODALL

Compassionate Development Faith Intelligence Live Love Ourselves Respect Spirit Tolerance Understand Violence
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Live
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.
JANE GOODALL

Himself Science Study
Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
JANE GOODALL

Control Goodness People Violence War
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.
JANE GOODALL

Book Carry Myself Nature Peace People
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Nature Save Understand

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