We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
JANE GOODALLSometimes 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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.
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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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