It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALLThe least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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 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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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 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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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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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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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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