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 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.
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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?
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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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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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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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We 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.
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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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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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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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Peace starts within.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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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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