We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALLAnd always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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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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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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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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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