Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
JANE GOODALLThe greatest danger to our future is apathy.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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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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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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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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