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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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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
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It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me.
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I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!
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My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.
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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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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
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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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People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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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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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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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 like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.
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We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.
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