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?
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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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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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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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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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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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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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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Peace starts within.
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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