Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALLIt was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I’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.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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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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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Peace starts within.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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