And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALLIt was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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Peace starts within.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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