I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLEach 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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.
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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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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