One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
JANE GOODALLChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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 we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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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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I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
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