We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALLEach 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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Peace starts within.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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 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.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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