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― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Peyote has been used medicinally in many different contexts by several Native American cultures. The Tarahumara of northwest Mexico held long-distance races from”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“When we focus on the future, we do one of three things. We fantasize, which involves big dreams that are mostly for fun and entertainment; we dwell, which involves focusing on all the bad stuff that might happen—this was the official pastime of my hometown—or we hope, which involves envisioning the future while recognizing the inevitability of challenges.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Societies only seem stable when they are ruled over by an autocratic government.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“It was twelve-year-old Edmond Albius, whose mother had worked on a vanilla plantation on Réunion (a small island off Madagascar), who revolutionized vanilla farming. The young Albius came up with a unique and innovative method of hand-pollination that is still being used to this day.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“Lake Tanganyika is said to be the largest body of uncontaminated water anywhere: it is the longest lake in the world and the second deepest.”
― Jane Goodall, Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

“Another inspiring example is Standing Rock,” I said, referencing the 2016 protests to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that would likely threaten the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s primary water source and desecrate their sacred sites. “The police used pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, and even sprayed the protestors with water in the freezing winter, and still the protestors stayed. Thinking about that now, it was the young people of Standing Rock who emerged as leaders in that occupation.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“He confided to me that he was taking part in an “experiment” to learn about the effects of mescaline—a substance I now know is extracted from a cactus.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“First—we must alleviate poverty. If you are living in crippling poverty, you will cut down the last tree to grow food. Or fish the last fish because you’re desperate to feed your family. In an urban area you will buy the cheapest food—you do not have the luxury of choosing a more ethically produced product.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“I truly believe that a lot of what I perceive as deliberate cruelty is based on ignorance.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“because they’re learning and listening while they play.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“No puede pasar un día sin una repercusión tuya en el mundo que te rodea. Tus acciones marcan una diferencia y tú decides que tipo de diferencia quieres marcar.”
― Jane Goodall

“Science demands objective factual evidence—proof;spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. It is enough, for me, that my faith gives me an inner peace and brings meaning to my own life.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“It is important to take action and realize that we can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action, and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. That is how we spread the light. And this, of course, makes us all ever more hopeful.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.”
― Jane Goodall

“Our patterns of aggression are little changed from those that we see in chimpanzees. But while chimpanzees have, to some extent, an awareness of the pain which they may inflict on their victims, only we, I believe, are capable of real cruelty—the deliberate infliction of physical or mental pain on living creatures despite, or even because of, our precise understanding of the suffering involved. Only we are capable of torture. Only we, surely, are capable of evil.”
― Jane Goodall, Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

“think that wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“The tragedy is that a pandemic such as this one has long been predicted by those studying zootonic diseases. Approximately 75 percent of all new human diseases come from our interactions with animals. COVID-19 is likely one of them. They start when a pathogen, such as a bacteria or virus, spills over from an animal to a human and bonds with a cell in a human. And this may lead to a new disease.”
― Jane Goodall

“It is important to take action and to realize that we Can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. This is how we spread the Light. And this, of course, makes us all even more hopeful.”
― Jane Goodall

“I watched a TV show where the scientist proudly showed how he could kill little mice by making a certain kind of loud noise.”
― Jane Goodall, My Life With The Chimpanzees

“He said that history takes two steps forward and one step back.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“That’s so inspiring,” I said. “It makes me think of my father’s accident, too. He fell down a flight of stairs, almost exactly five years before he died. My dad suffered a very serious traumatic brain injury that left him delirious for over a month. We were told that he might never come back or be himself again. When he finally came back to his right mind, my brother said he was sorry my dad had endured such a traumatic experience. My dad responded, ‘Oh, no, not at all. It’s all part of my curriculum.”
― Jane Goodall

“But like our intellect, social media in itself is neither good nor bad—it is the use to which we put it that counts.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“We’ve got to support them, encourage them, empower them, listen to them, and”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“He took me to visit the safe house he had created for young people who were affected by drugs, alcohol, and violence in their homes.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Eger?”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“help people realize that their actions, however small they may seem, will truly make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions can help to save and improve our world for future generations. And why would you bother to take action if you did not truly hope that it would make a difference?”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Children—and adults—who have a growth mindset are much more successful than those who have a fixed mindset about themselves and the world. But”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times