Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALLAny 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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Peace starts within.
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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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