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.
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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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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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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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