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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
Environmentalist
Ethologist
Primatologist
University Teacher
Writer
Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Dame Jane Goodall
Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.
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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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I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.
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Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.
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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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There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!
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There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.
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I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.
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Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.
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Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the selfish gene thesis doesn't explain everything.
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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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The voice of the natural world would be, Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.
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But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
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We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.
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Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.
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I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.
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Chimpanzees can be quite political.
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You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.
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