We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALLOne thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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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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 greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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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 can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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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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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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