I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
JANE GOODALLWe 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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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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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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