Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALLWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
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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.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, 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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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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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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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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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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