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 GOODALLFrom the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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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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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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