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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

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALL

Career Myself Nature Science
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
JANE GOODALL

Prayer Strength
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?
JANE GOODALL

Destroy Home Intellectual Walk
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
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
JANE GOODALL

Human Love Ourselves Potential
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
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.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death Eyes Hope Mental Misery Myself Prison Support Talk
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
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
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 GOODALL

Decision Difference Philosophy World Yourself
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Dream Forget People
You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALL

Feeling Myself True
We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALL

Animal Human Thinking
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death
Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
JANE GOODALL

Live Personality Rise Tree Young

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.

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