That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
JANE GOODALLA 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
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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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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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