People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALLI never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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