Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
JANE GOODALLLasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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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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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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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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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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