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.
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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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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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Peace starts within.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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