Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
JANE GOODALLOnly if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
JANE GOODALLWithout patience I could never have succeeded.
JANE GOODALLSometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
JANE GOODALLI like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
JANE GOODALLAs thy days, so shall thy strength be.
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 GOODALLHere we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
JANE GOODALLAnd always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
JANE GOODALLEvery individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
JANE GOODALLNature can win if we give her a chance.
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 GOODALLYou 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 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 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 GOODALLWe find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
JANE GOODALL