I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALLArguably, 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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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?
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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 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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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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