From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
JANE GOODALLOnly 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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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.
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Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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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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