From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
JANE GOODALLOnly when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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Peace starts within.
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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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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?
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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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