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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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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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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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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