Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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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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