Reason for Hope Quotes

“Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“....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.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees – it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“THE OLD WISDOM

When the night wind makes the pine trees creak
And the pale clouds glide across the dark sky,
Go out my child, go out and seek
Your soul: The Eternal I.

For all the grasses rustling at your feet
And every flaming star that glitters high
Above you, close up and meet
In you: The Eternal I.

Yes, my child, go out into the world; walk slow
And silent, comprehending all, and by and by
Your soul, the Universe, will know
Itself: the Eternal I.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Oh, the world needs those standing on the Bridge, For they know how Eternity reaches to earth In the wind that brings music to the leaves Of the forest: in the drops of rain that caress The sleeping life of the desert: in the sunbeams Of the first spring day in an alpine meadow. Only they can blow the dust from the seeing eyes Of those who are blind.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Most of us don't realize the difference we could make. We love to shrug off our own responsibilities, to point fingers at others. "Surely," we say, "the pollution, waste, and other ills are not our fault. They are the fault of the industry, business, science. They are the fault of the politicians," This leads to a destructive and potentially deadly apathy.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution—and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn't work.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“I don’t remember when first I heard Them calling, with their silvery voices, The little Angels of the trees and flowers. They offered to unlock my mind And take my soul away, to clean. And oh! I welcomed them, and lay Stretched out upon the fragrant Grass, light as an empty husk. Then they, with rueful smiles, did oil The rusty hinges of my mind, and swept Away the cobwebs, and hung my soul Upon a topmost bough, to air, Close to the purifying sun. And I was lucky For as it fluttered there, a robin chat’s sweet Song rose through the trees till every fiber Of my soul was bathed in harmony. When all was clean and new they fetched My soul and slipped it back and, smiling, Danced away. And I—well, for a day or two— I looked upon the world with all the Innocence and wonder of a newborn babe. And now, if I am sad, or filled With sudden rage, I find some quiet place With grass and leaves and earth, and sit there Silently, and hope that they will come And call me, with their silvery voices, And make me clean again, those Little Angels of the trees and flowers.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“There are really only two ways, it seems to me, in which we can think about our existence here on earth. We either agree with Macbeth that life is nothing more than a “tale told by an idiot,” a purposeless emergence of life-forms including the clever, greedy, selfish, and unfortunately destructive species that we call Homo sapiens—the “evolutionary goof.” Or we believe that, as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin put it, “There is something afoot in the universe, something that looks like gestation and birth.” In other words, a plan, a purpose to it all.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope

“How healing it was to be back at Gombe again, and by myself with the chimpanzees and their forest. I had left the busy, materialistic world so full of greed and selfishness and, for a little while, could feel myself, as in the early days, a part of nature. I felt very much in tune with the chimpanzees, for I was spending time with them not to observe, but simple because I needed their company, undemanding and free of pity.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“As thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“...very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

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

“Here was a chimpanzee using a tool... That was object modification-- the crude beginning of tool making.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“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

“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

“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

“Many years ago, in the spring of 1974, I visited the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. There were not many people around, and it was quiet and still inside. I gazed in silent awe at the great Rose Window, glowing in the morning sun. All at once the cathedral was filled with a huge volume of sound: an organ playing magnificently for a wedding taking place in a distant corner. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. I had always loved the opening theme; but in the cathedral, filling the entire vastness, it seemed to enter and possess my whole self. It was as though the music itself was alive.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.”
― Jane Goodall, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey