We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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