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.
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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Peace starts within.
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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 actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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Very 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.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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