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 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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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Peace starts within.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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.
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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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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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.
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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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