He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
JANE GOODALLWe find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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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Peace starts within.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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