Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALLYou 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.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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