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.
JANE GOODALLOne thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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Peace starts within.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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