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 GOODALLI never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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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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