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.
JANE GOODALLArguably, 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?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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 those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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 so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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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