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I believe the only hope for mankind lies in the hands of our young people.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
Anthropologist
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Hampstead Village
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
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Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.
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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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Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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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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I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
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Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.
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Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.
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If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.
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It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.
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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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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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A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.
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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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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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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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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
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It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.
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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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If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.
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