People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALLThe greatest danger to our future is apathy.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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