And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALLThere is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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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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