I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLI don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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