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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.

Jane Goodall

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?
JANE GOODALL

Control Goodness People Violence War
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.
JANE GOODALL

Community Human Life Moral Spiritual World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Enough Feeling God Greatness Ideas Myself Power Spiritual
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Save Understand
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Live
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
JANE GOODALL

Animal Endurance Live Love People Suffering Worth
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
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.
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Leaving Need People World
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Beginning Tools
That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
JANE GOODALL

Hope Listen Live Ourselves Place Start World
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Force People Powerful Young
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
JANE GOODALL

Children Fun Learning Oneself
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Nature Save Understand
Each 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.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Live Love Ourselves Play Respect Responsibility Role Worth
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.
JANE GOODALL

Compassionate Development Faith Intelligence Live Love Ourselves Respect Spirit Tolerance Understand Violence
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALL

Animal Human Thinking

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