People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
JANE GOODALLWithout patience I could never have succeeded.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Peace starts within.
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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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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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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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Attacks by other chimpanzees are the second most frequent cause of death at Gombe, after disease.
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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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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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