And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALLNature can win if we give her a chance.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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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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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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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Peace starts within.
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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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