We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALLWe have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Peace starts within.
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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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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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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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.
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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