We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALLNature can win if we give her a chance.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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 always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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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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