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One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!
Jane Goodall
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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
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Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.
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If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.
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Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?
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If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.
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I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.
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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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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
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I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.
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I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!
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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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People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.
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I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.
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I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.
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We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.
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We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.
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We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.
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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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Other people have talked about chimpanzees being a window into the past, which I suppose is true, in a way.
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