It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALLPeople 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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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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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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Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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