What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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.
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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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