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.
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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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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Peace starts within.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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