As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
JANE GOODALLWe have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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.
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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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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?
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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?
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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