Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALLSomeday 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?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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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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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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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.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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