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I don't even think of chimps as animals. I think of them as beings.

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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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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Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
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Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother
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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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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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You know the old expression We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.
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Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.
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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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I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.
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The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher and higher. If I were a bird that needs feathers to fly higher, I would regard my mother as my strongest feather.
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I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.
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We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the things that are ethical for us to buy and don't buy the things that are not, we can change the world overnight.
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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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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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I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.
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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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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.
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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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