The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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Peace starts within.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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 never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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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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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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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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