Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.
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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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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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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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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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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Peace starts within.
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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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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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