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.
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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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 those who cannot speak for themselves
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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