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.
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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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?
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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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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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.
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I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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