Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALLThere is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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