Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALLWe find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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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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