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 GOODALLLasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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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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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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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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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?
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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