"....I understood why those who had lived through……" — Jane Goodall
"....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States."
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Jane Goodall
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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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I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
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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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