The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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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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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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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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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.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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