I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
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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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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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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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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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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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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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