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 GOODALLAttacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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