Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
JANE GOODALLYou 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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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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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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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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