Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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