Peace starts within.
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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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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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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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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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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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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
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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 greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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