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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Jane Goodall

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Deep Difference Yourself
It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALL

Deep Difficult Oppression Woman
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Beginning Tools
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.
JANE GOODALL

Company Enjoyment Laughter Myself Thinking
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALL

One Liner Peace
I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
JANE GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Different Myself People Remember
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.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Live Love Ourselves Play Respect Responsibility Role Worth
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Play Role
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?
JANE GOODALL

Control Goodness People Violence War
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.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Thinking World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Book Carry Myself Nature Peace People
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.
JANE GOODALL

Dog Love Myself Perspective Thinking
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Dream Forget People
And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALL

Feeling Myself True
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Last Right Value
There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
JANE GOODALL

Change Force People Powerful Young
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Man Myself Woman
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Life Ourselves Place World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Live Personality Rise Tree Young
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death
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.
JANE GOODALL

Himself Science Study
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death Eyes Hope Mental Misery Myself Prison Support Talk
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?
JANE GOODALL

Hope Listen Live Ourselves Place Start World
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Change Listen People Right Start

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