Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Peace starts within.
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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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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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other’s company.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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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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