I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALLI’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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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 those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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.
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