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 GOODALLSo, 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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