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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.
Jane Goodall
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Jane Goodall
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 3
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Hampstead Village
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Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
Dame Jane Goodall
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Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.
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Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say yes and not think too much about the consequences.
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
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Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.
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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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Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.
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The voice of the natural world would be, Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering.
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If a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals - and other people for that matter - in their time of need?
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It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
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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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For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.
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You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.
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If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.
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The awful thing is we don't respect each other.
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I am obstinate and I will not give in.
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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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You're thinking about putting scientists into small cages and doing research on them. I wish it could happen sometimes.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
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Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.
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If you catch somebody doing something wrong, he will just cringe away and curl up. He will not listen anymore. Instead, he will think of how he can counterattack.
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