I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much ab... - Jane Goodall

"I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things."

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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."
"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."
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