The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALLHere we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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.
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