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.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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