Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
JANE GOODALLFrom the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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Peace starts within.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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