We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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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 never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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