What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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?
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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 never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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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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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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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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