Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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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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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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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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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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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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