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.
JANE GOODALLSome 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?
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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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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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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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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