I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLEvery individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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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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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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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.
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Peace starts within.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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