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.
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 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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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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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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALL