The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
JANE GOODALLOnly when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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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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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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