From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
JANE GOODALLThe least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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Peace starts within.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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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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