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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Nature can win if we give her a chance.

Jane Goodall

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  I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.

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  And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.

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  People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

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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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  From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.

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  So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.

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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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  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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  Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?

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  Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

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  I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

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  Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

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  Peace starts within.

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  Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.

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  We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

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  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.

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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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  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 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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  It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.

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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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  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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  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 greatest danger to our future is apathy.

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  People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

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