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.
JANE GOODALLThe least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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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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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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