Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALLWe can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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