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.
JANE GOODALLThe greatest danger to our future is apathy.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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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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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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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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