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.
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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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Trees are living beings. And they have their own personalities. There are the young, eager saplings, all striving with each other. If you put your cheek against one of those, you almost sense the sap rising and the energy.
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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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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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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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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 least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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