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.
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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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 find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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