I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
JANE GOODALLThe greatest danger to our future is apathy.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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.
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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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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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