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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

Jane Goodall

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
JANE GOODALL

Darkness Food Goodness Ourselves Poison
It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALL

Deep Difficult Oppression Woman
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.
JANE GOODALL

Live Personality Rise Tree Young
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Last Right Value
That 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?
JANE GOODALL

Hope Listen Live Ourselves Place Start World
Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Believe Human Myself Sin Worst
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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Control Goodness People Violence War
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Animal Myself People Savage
It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Beyond Greatness Hope Reward
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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Himself Science Study
You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Live Love Ourselves Play Respect Responsibility Role Worth
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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Destroy Live
And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALL

Feeling Myself True
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Deep Difference Yourself
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALL

Beginning Excitement Life Myself Time
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

Believe Enough Feeling God Greatness Ideas Myself Power Spiritual
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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Choice Gift Ourselves Place
Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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Animal Endurance Live Love People Suffering Worth
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Save Understand
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.
JANE GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death
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.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Thinking World
If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
JANE GOODALL

Fun Help Justice
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Play Role
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Animal Human Thinking

And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

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