Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALLI 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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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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