Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALLFrom the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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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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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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