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To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
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Hampstead Village
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Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.
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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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But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.
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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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We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.
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My favorite animals are dogs.
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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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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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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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Chimpanzees can be quite political.
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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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I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.
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But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
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It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.
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A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.
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Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.
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The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.
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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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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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In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.
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