The Book of Hope Quotes

“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

“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

“Are you saying we have to find a way of forgiving the oppressor?” I asked, somewhat suspect of this ability to forgive or have compassion for the oppressor.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“that she suddenly understood how a sense of compassion for the victims of oppression can lead to a hatred of the oppressor—and there you have a recipe for reciprocal violence and internecine war like in Rwanda and Burundi.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“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

“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

“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

“Hugo van Lawick, the Dutch filmmaker who recorded Jane’s discoveries, ultimately became her first husband.”
― 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

“Actually, it’s a survival trait,” she finally concluded. “That’s what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“Many people understand the dire state of the planet—but do nothing about it because they feel helpless and hopeless.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.”
― 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

“and some degree of social justice, the generous and peaceful aspects of our nature are likely to prevail; while in a society of racial discrimination and economic injustice, violence will thrive.”
― 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

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

“around four main reasons for hope: the amazing human intellect, the resilience of nature, the power of youth, and the indomitable human spirit.”
― 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

“Archbishop Tutu once explained to me that suffering can either embitter us or ennoble us, and it tends to ennoble us if we are able to make meaning out of our suffering and use it for the benefit of others.”
― 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

“a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet:”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times