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.
JANE GOODALLAny little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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 never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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