From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
JANE GOODALLWithout patience I could never have succeeded.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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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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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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Nature can win if we give her a chance.
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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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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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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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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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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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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 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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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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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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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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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
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