We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALLHere was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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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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