It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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