One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
JANE GOODALLNature can win if we give her a chance.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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