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.
JANE GOODALLNature can win if we give her a chance.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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 have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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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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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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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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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 least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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