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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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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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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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
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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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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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.
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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.
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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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 like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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