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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?

Jane Goodall

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL

Decision Deep Difference Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Thinking World
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.
JANE GOODALL

Live Personality Rise Tree Young
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Compassionate Equality Forget Human Love Ourselves
Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALL

One Liner Peace
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.
JANE GOODALL

Act Believe Human Important Mess Ourselves Right Yourself
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Play Role
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?
JANE GOODALL

Darkness Food Goodness Ourselves Poison
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.
JANE GOODALL

Company Enjoyment Laughter Myself Thinking
It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
JANE GOODALL

Deep Difficult Oppression Woman
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.
JANE GOODALL

Book Carry Myself Nature Peace People
Nature can win if we give her a chance.
JANE GOODALL

Nature Win
So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.
JANE GOODALL

Compassionate Development Faith Intelligence Live Love Ourselves Respect Spirit Tolerance Understand Violence
People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALL

Achievement Dream Forget People
Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
JANE GOODALL

Animal Death
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.
JANE GOODALL

Anger Easy Simplicity Stop Yourself
Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
JANE GOODALL

Believe Human Myself Sin Worst
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
JANE GOODALL

Prayer Strength
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
JANE GOODALL

Care Help Save Understand
We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
JANE GOODALL

Choice Gift Ourselves Place
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.
JANE GOODALL

Difference Live Love Ourselves Play Respect Responsibility Role Worth
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.
JANE GOODALL

Life Luxury Myself Necessary Thinking Tolerance
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
JANE GOODALL

Animal Help Myself Support Talk Voice
Without patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALL

Myself Patience Success
And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
JANE GOODALL

Beginning Excitement Life Myself Time
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.
JANE GOODALL

Hope Myself Photograph Vision World Yourself
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.
JANE GOODALL

Community Human Life Moral Spiritual World

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