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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother

Jane Goodall

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
JANE GOODALL

Darkness Food Goodness Ourselves Poison
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.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Difference Philosophy World Yourself
Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
JANE GOODALL

Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALL

One Liner Peace
That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
JANE GOODALL

Hope Listen Live Ourselves Place Start World
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Play Role
How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
JANE GOODALL

Anger Easy Simplicity Stop Yourself
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
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.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Live Love Ourselves Play Respect Responsibility Role Worth
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Nature Save Understand
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Force People Powerful Young
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.
JANE GOODALL

Book Carry Myself Nature Peace People
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
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

Animal Man Myself Woman
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Support Talk Voice
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Myself People Savage

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