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?
JANE GOODALLWithout patience I could never have succeeded.
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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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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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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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Peace starts within.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
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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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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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