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.
JANE GOODALLOne thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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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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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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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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 said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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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