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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.

Jane Goodall

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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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My favorite animals are dogs.
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Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.
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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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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
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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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Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.
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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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There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.
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Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.
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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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It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.
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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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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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Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the selfish gene thesis doesn't explain everything.
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Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.
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I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.
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