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.
JANE GOODALLHow 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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Peace starts within.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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