Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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?
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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