The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
JANE GOODALLThe greatest danger to our future is apathy.
JANE GOODALLAny 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 GOODALLCruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
JANE GOODALLI’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
JANE GOODALLThe least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
JANE GOODALLPeople say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
JANE GOODALLChange happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
JANE GOODALLLasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
JANE GOODALLPeace starts within.
JANE GOODALLWithout patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALLAs thy days, so shall thy strength be.
JANE GOODALLIt was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
JANE GOODALLHow 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 GOODALLHe 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 GOODALLI never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
JANE GOODALLArguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
JANE GOODALL