Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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