Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
JANE GOODALLIt actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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’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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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I 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.
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