We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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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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Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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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?
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Peace starts within.
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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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