Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
JANE GOODALLWithout patience I could never have succeeded.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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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.
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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?
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Arguably, 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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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Peace starts within.
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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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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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