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.
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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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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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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I’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.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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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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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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