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 GOODALLOnly when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a 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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People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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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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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.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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