I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
JANE GOODALLI 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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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 greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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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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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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 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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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
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