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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Jane Goodall

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 GOODALL

Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
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.
JANE GOODALL

Dog Love Myself Perspective Thinking
It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
JANE GOODALL

Beyond Greatness Hope Reward
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Deep Difference Yourself
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Dream Forget People
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Myself People Savage
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALL

Animal Help Myself Support Talk Voice
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death Eyes Hope Mental Misery Myself Prison Support Talk
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALL

Nature Win
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.
JANE GOODALL

Himself Science Study
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
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.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Community Human Life Moral Spiritual World
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALL

Human Love Ourselves Potential

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