Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALLNature can win if we give her a chance.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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?
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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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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.
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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