From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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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.
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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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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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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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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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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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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