People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALLThat is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Peace starts within.
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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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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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