Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALLCruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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That is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
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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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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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Peace starts within.
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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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Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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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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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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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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