And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALLI like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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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 the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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