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.
JANE GOODALLThe 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.
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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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Peace starts within.
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