One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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Peace starts within.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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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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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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