I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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 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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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