Jane Goodall Quotes

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• Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and…
• If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your…
• Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
• 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…
• I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
• I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your…
• It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort…
• I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
• I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having…
• Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per…
• They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How…
• The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests
• It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
• One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!
• Chimps taught us we're not separated from the animal kingdom, we're a part of it.
• Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.
• It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.
• My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.
• 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…

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