We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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 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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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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