Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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