And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALLIf we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
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I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
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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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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
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