Jane Goodall > Quotes

“I see what you’re saying about the link between nature’s resilience and human resilience,” I said. “How addressing human injustices like poverty and gender oppression makes us better able to create hope for people and the environment. Our efforts to protect endangered species preserve biodiversity on the Earth—and when we protect all life, we inherently protect our own.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“All animal life ultimately depends on plants if you think about”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“It was as though the plants wanted me to write a different kind of book and sent gentle roots deep into my brain. They wanted me to fully acknowledge their importance in human history, their amazing powers of healing, the nourishment they provide, their ability to harm if we misused them, and, ultimately, our dependence on the plant kingdom. The plants seemed to want me to share with the world my own understanding of their beingness, so that people might better honor them as important partners in so many of our endeavors.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“When making decisions most people ask, ‘Will it help me or my family now or the next shareholders’ meeting or my next election campaign?’ The hallmark of wisdom is asking, ‘What effects will the decision I make today have on future generations? On the health of the planet?”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“It is of more than historical interest to reflect that Henry Ford modeled his assembly line car production after visiting a Chicago slaughterhouse in the early 1900s. He watched the suspended animals, legs shackled and heads downward, on a moving conveyor as they traveled from worker to worker, each of whom performed a step in the slaughtering process. Ford immediately saw that it was a perfect model for the automobile industry, creating an assembly method of building cars.

More than efficient, the slaughtering assembly line offered workers a newly found detachment in the whole messy business of killing animals. Animals were reduced to factory products and the emotionally deadened workers could see themselves as line workers rather than animal killers. Later, the Nazis used the same slaughterhouse model for their mass murders in the concentration camps. The factory-style assembly line became a way for Nazi soldiers to detach from the killing--seeing the victims as "animals," and themselves as workers. Henry Ford, a rampant anti-Semite, not only developed the assembly line method later used in the Holocaust, he openly admired the Nazis' efficiency. Hitler returned the admiration. The German leader considered "Heinrich Ford" a comrade-in-arms and kept a life-sized portrait of the automobile mogul in his office at the Nazi Party headquarters.”
― Jane Goodall

“Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, about the horrific damage caused by the”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“My Life with the Chimpanzees.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“You don’t really get over it. It is such a great loss,” Jane said. “I guess the depth of our grief is a reminder of the depth of our love.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“every single individual matters, has a role to play, and makes an impact on the planet—every”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“A life lived in the service of humanity, a love of and respect for all living things - those attributes are the essence of saintlike behaviour.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Alas, the pandemic has produced many heroes, like the doctors, nurses, and health care workers who risk--and too often lose--their lives as they battle tirelessly to save others.”
― Jane Goodall

“Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon and was closely followed by Buzz Aldrin.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we’re destroying it before we’ve even finished learning about it. We think we are smarter than nature, but we are not. Our human intellect is amazing, but we must be humble and recognize that there is an even greater intelligence in nature.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Carbon dating revealed that these seeds were two thousand years old! Dr. Sarah Sallon, the director of the Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah University Hospital, and Dr. Elaine Solowey, who runs the Center for Sustainable Agriculture at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies at Kibbutz Ketura, got permission to try to germinate a few of them. One of the seeds grew—a male whom she called Methuselah after the character in the Bible, Noah’s grandfather, who was said to have lived to be nine hundred and sixty-nine years old.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“school shootings, gang warfare, domestic violence, and racism and sexism. How can you possibly be hopeful for the”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“And a sense of meaning is so important for hope and happiness, isn’t it?” I asked. “It is,” Jane replied. “Without meaning, life is empty and day will follow day, month will follow month, and year will follow year in mindless succession.” “Those,” I reflected, “are the people who have lost hope.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Hope, on the other hand, is a stubborn determination to do all you can to make it work.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“David Greybeard was eventually named one of the fifteen most influential animals that ever lived by Time magazine.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“But you see, Doug,” Jane continued, suddenly animated again, “this just shows you the importance of language. We can discuss these problems. We can teach our children the importance of looking at a problem from different points of view. To keep an open mind. To choose forgiveness instead of revenge.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“For this reason I believe that only humans are capable of true evil—only we can sit down and, in cold blood, work out ways to torture people, to inflict pain. Carefully plan horrific cruelty.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“nature is there, waiting to move in and help to heal herself.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“And there are times when I lie on my back in some quiet place and look up and up and up into the heavens as the stars gradually emerge from the fading of day’s light. And I see myself, a tiny speck of consciousness in the enormity of the universe.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“There is now scientific research that proves that gardening promotes well-being in people experiencing depression or distress, including those who are elderly, homeless, or mentally ill. Indeed, putting one’s hands in the soil, feeling the texture of plants, smelling their scents, and looking at their calming colors can relax the mind and uplift the spirits.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“Someone once wondered why it is that if a work of Man is destroyed, it is called vandalism, but if a work of nature, of God, is destroyed it is so often called progress.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“Niña mía, sal al mundo, camina despacio
y en silencio, absórbelo, y con el tiempo
tu espíritu, el universo, se conocerá
a sí mismo: el Yo Eterno.”
― Jane Goodall

“They actually have brains in each of their eight arms!”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we’re destroying it before we’ve even finished learning about it.”
― Jane Goodall

“she never lost hope. She told herself, ‘This is temporary.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Життя, прожите у служінні людству, любові та повазі до всього живого - атрибути поведінки святого.
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Джоджо не скоїв жодного злочину, але його прирекли на довічне ув'язнення. І мені стало соромно, що я людина.
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Коли ми приймемо, що люди - не єдині тварини з феноменом особистості, не єдині здатні мислити раціонально та розв'язувати проблеми, не єдині переживають радість, смуток та відчай, і передусім не єдині тварини, що переживають і психологічні, й фізичні страждання, тоді станемо (я сподіваюсь) менш пихатими та дещо менш упевненими, що маємо неодмінне право використовувати інші форми життя в будь-який спосіб, доки є бодай гіпотетичний зиск для людського виду.
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Джордж Бернард Шоу, британський драматург, сказав: "Ми не хочемо битися, а проте об'їдаїмось мертвими. Бенджамін Франклін заявив, що м'ясоїдство - "неспровоковане вбивство". І, найпалкіший серед усіх, Леонардо да Вінчі, ... , називав тіла м'ясоїдів "місцем поховання; кладовищем тварин, яких вони їдять".
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Якби ж нам вдалося побороти жорстокість людини до тварини за допомогою любови й співчуття, тоді ми стояли б на порозі нової ери моралі й духовної еволюції. І нарешті усвідомили б, що наша найунікальніша риса - людяність.
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... для особистісного зростання мені важливо бути у місті горя, злості та страху.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey