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Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.

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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It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.
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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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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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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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The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests
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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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It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
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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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I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.
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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 think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
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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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We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.
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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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Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
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If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
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Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.
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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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I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
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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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