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I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
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Hampstead Village
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Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall
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I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.
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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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However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.
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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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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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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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The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.
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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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There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.
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Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say yes and not think too much about the consequences.
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I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.
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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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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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Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.
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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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