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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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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Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.
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Having respect for animals makes us better humans.
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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
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At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
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The only possible way to get somebody to change is to reach into their hearts.
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Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.
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For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.
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As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.
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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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We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.
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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
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When I go back to Gombe it's to be in that timeless world where it's soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around.
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If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.
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You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.
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