"I miss the early days; I do. I……" — Jane Goodall
"I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky."
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138 Quotes by Jane Goodall
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers…
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will…
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Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we…
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I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
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I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with…
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It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of…
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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 learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She…
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have…
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They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine - but to hang…
— Frank Zappa
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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of…
— Martin Rees
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections…
— Alison Jolly
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The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp…
— Unknown Author
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Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to…
— J M Coetzee
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others…
— Peter Singer
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Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler,…
— Peter Singer
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the…
— Richard Dawkins
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Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.
— Nicki Minaj
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