People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALLTrees 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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