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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

Jane Goodall

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.
JANE GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Myself People Savage
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALL

Beginning Excitement Life Myself Time
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
JANE GOODALL

Fun Help Justice
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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Live Personality Rise Tree Young
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
JANE GOODALL

Danger Future Greatness Ourselves
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 GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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Animal Beginning Tools
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Myself Patience Success
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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Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
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?
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Home Intellectual Walk
From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Eyes Moments Myself Personality Thinking
Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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Animal Endurance Live Love People Suffering Worth
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Difference Play Role
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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Care Help Save Understand
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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Children Fun Learning Oneself
Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALL

One Liner Peace
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALL

Animal Help Myself Support Talk Voice
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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Change Force People Powerful Young
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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Feeling Myself True
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.
JANE GOODALL

Compassionate Development Faith Intelligence Live Love Ourselves Respect Spirit Tolerance Understand Violence
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALL

Animal Human Thinking
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.
JANE GOODALL

Anger Easy Simplicity Stop Yourself
Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
JANE GOODALL

Community Human Life Moral Spiritual World
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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Destroy Live
Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Achievement Heart Human Ourselves Potential Togetherness True
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Last Right Value

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