The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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