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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Jane Goodall

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.
JANE GOODALL

Live Personality Rise Tree Young
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
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.
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Leaving Need People World
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
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALL

Animal Help Myself Support Talk Voice
From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
JANE GOODALL

Eyes Moments Myself Personality Thinking
And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALL

Feeling Myself True
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
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Live
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Dream Forget People
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALL

Nature Win
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Last Right Value
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
JANE GOODALL

Children Fun Learning Oneself
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
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

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