We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALLHere was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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