The Book of Hope Quotes

“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

“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

“Unfortunately, Doug, we have lost the long-term perspective, and we are suffering from an absurd and very unwise belief that there can be unlimited economic development on a planet of finite natural resources, focusing on short-term results or profits at the expense of long-term interests.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“One could argue that the human intellect was the greatest mistake in evolution—a mistake that is now threatening all life on the planet.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“If only we had listened to the scientists studying zoonotic diseases who have long warned that such a pandemic was inevitable if we continued to disrespect nature and disrespect animals. But their warnings fell on deaf ears. We didn’t listen and now we are paying a terrible price.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“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

“The naturalist,” Jane said, “looks for the wonder of nature—she listens to the voice of nature and learns from nature as she tries to understand it. Whereas a scientist is more focused on facts and the desire to quantify. For a scientist, the question is, ‘Why is this adaptive? How does it contribute to the survival of the species?”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“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

“if they worked together physically, and united spiritually, they could achieve anything.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“How do we get people to heed the dire warnings of the people on the ground who have been fighting this danger for so long? How do we get them to take action?”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Hope is how we create new facts.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“an evening tot of whisky is a nightly ritual and an opportunity to relax and, when possible, toast with friends.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“funding for Dian Fossey to study mountain gorillas and Biruté Galdikas to study orangutans. The three women later became known as “the Trimates.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet

“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 difference you want to make." -Jane Goodall”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet

“My Life with the Chimpanzees.”
― 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

“intelligence and communication of trees, see Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) and Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World (Greystone Books, 2016).”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“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

“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

“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

“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

“deaths of despair escalating in terrifying ways as people struggled with the dislocation and isolation that the pandemic had caused.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Without meaning, life is empty and day will follow day, month will follow month,”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

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

“that with courage and determination the impossible becomes possible.”
― 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

“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

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

“educate them.”
― 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