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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.

Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Play Role
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALL

Animal Human Thinking
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Change Listen People Right Start
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.
JANE GOODALL

Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Beginning Tools
A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Thinking World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Community Human Life Moral Spiritual World
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 GOODALL

Animal Different Myself People Remember
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALL

Animal Help Myself Support Talk Voice
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALL

Nature Win
Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Human Myself Sin Worst
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Ourselves Place
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.
JANE GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
JANE GOODALL

Children Fun Learning Oneself
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?
JANE GOODALL

Control Goodness People Violence War

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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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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