Peace starts within.
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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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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 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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