We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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