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Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.

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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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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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To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.
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You know the old expression We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.
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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!
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.
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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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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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Animals are as deserving of a place on this planet as we are, and the difference between us is that humans have a voice they can use to help the animal cause, and it is up to all of us to use it to make a positive difference!
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Chimps are far too much human to be my favorite animal.
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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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A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.
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I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.
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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 is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.
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There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.
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Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.
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You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.
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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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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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