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“Hope,' Jane said, 'is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.”
― Jane Goodall

“Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“An intelligent animal would not destroy its only home—”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Hope is a survival instinct”
― Jane Goodall

“Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“animals have minds capable of solving problems, as well as emotions and very definite personalities,”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Fridays for Future” was initiated by Greta Thunberg,”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Today it is known as Haller Park and is visited by people from around the world, and it serves as a model for other restoration projects.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“enhances the orchid’s reproductive success—but not his own! The best known of these cheats is the bee orchid—the flower looks and feels like a female bee and even has the same pheromones.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“That's what happens when people die. Time freezes around them. If you stand too close, you get caught, like a fly trapped in amber. It takes a certain amount of strength to pull away and leave it behind.”
― Sherri L Smith, Pasadena

“But as more people realize that animals have a right to live and are sentient beings with personalities, minds, and emotions, there is increased public support for these programs. What’s really exciting is that some of these species in the European plains were on the very brink of extinction.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Hope science has identified four components that are essential for any lasting sense of hope in our lives—and perhaps in our world. We need to have realistic goals to pursue as well as realistic pathways to achieve them. In addition, we need the confidence that we can achieve these goals, and the support to help us overcome adversity along the way. Some researchers call these four components the “hope cycle” because the more of each we have, the more they encourage each other and inspire hope in our life.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“When I was in Mexico, I was told how mescaline was extracted from the peyote cactus.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“We need nature, but nature does not need us.”
― Jane Goodall

“The Seed Cathedral.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“Spring, about the horrific damage caused by the use of DDT.” “That book really did help start a movement,” I agreed. “The right book or the right film at the right time really can change the culture. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is another example. Books like Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy have”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

“She said there’s always beauty, even when there’s pain and suffering. She learned not to hide from the darkness, just not to get lost in it.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, famous for its collection of more than six thousand living orchids.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“there seems to be a disconnect between our clever brain and our compassionate heart.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“We don’t really know how it will all turn out, do we? And we can’t just think that we can do nothing and everything will work out for the best.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“would be to rejoin the Paris Agreement and recommit to building a healthier economy and planet. Sixty-one percent of Americans age eighteen to twenty-nine—who made up almost one-fifth of the electorate—would vote for Biden.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“It is now clear not only that all the trees in the forest are interconnected below the ground but also that each of the largest and oldest trees serves as a “mother tree,” with younger trees growing within her root-fungi network.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Hope is contagious. Your actions will inspire others. It is my sincere desire that this book will help you find solace in a time of anguish, direction in a time of uncertainty, courage in a time of fear.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Birutė Galdikas, the primatologist and authority on orangutans, has been fighting to fend off poachers, miners, and loggers over the years, but palm oil has proven to be the greatest threat of all.”
― Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

“And there’s another thing, Doug. Just as only we are capable of true evil,” Jane said, “I think only we are capable of true altruism.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times