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Sometimes 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.

Jane Goodall

I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Different Myself People Remember
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death
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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Destroy Live
It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
JANE GOODALL

Beyond Greatness Hope Reward
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Nature Win
Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Heart Human Ourselves Potential Togetherness True
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Life Ourselves Place World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
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 GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Thinking World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death Eyes Hope Mental Misery Myself Prison Support Talk
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Beginning Tools
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Ourselves Place
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Change Listen People Right Start
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.
JANE GOODALL

Dog Love Myself Perspective Thinking
He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
JANE GOODALL

Himself Science Study

Sometimes 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.

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