I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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