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.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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?
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Peace starts within.
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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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 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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