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.
JANE GOODALLVery 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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 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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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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.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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