You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALLI 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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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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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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