28 Notable Jane Goodall Quotes That Give Us Insights About Primate Behavior

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

You

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The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Future

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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

Life

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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

You

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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.

Will

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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

I

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One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

I

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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

You Change Believe

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We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Love

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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.

Me I

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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

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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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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

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We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

Need Living

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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Change

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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

Think I

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And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

I

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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.

Love

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People said, "Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.

You

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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

Hope I

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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".

Think

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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn't work.

You Yourself

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Without patience I could never have succeeded.

Never I

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As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.

Change Young

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Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

Together Heart

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...very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.

Think I

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