It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Peace starts within.
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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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