We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALLIf we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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 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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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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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, 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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