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.
JANE GOODALLBut let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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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 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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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