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.
JANE GOODALLI’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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Peace starts within.
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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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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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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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
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