I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
JANE GOODALLFrom the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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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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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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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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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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