It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
JANE GOODALLEvery individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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 always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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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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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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