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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.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
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I am living in the Africa I have always longed for, always felt stirring in my blood.
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I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
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I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
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I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.
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At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing.
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