And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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 GOODALL