I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home. Jane Goodall More Quotes by Jane Goodall More Quotes From Jane Goodall My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. Jane Goodall missionsharmonyworld It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me. Jane Goodall up-to-youtomorrowworld It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists. Jane Goodall generationsuselesswould-be I think I'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 Goodall humilityanimalthinking I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions. Jane Goodall empoweringemotionlove We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. Jane Goodall believepeopleworld Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right. Jane Goodall sadnesspainanimal The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering." Jane Goodall voicespacezoos It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed. Jane Goodall giving-upinspirationsuccess Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. Jane Goodall effortanimalbelieve One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. Jane Goodall parentingfunchildren I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves. Jane Goodall eyebelievethinking The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. Jane Goodall gardenbookchildren One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world! Jane Goodall individual-effortmaking-a-differencedifferences Animals are as deserving of a place on this planet as we are, and the difference between us is that humans have a voice they can use to help the animal cause, and it is up to all of us to use it to make a positive difference! Jane Goodall differencesvoiceanimal I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild. Jane Goodall carecivilizationtwo I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other. Jane Goodall spiritualnamesideas My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts. Jane Goodall effortarmypeople Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs... Jane Goodall vegetarianisminspiringanimal I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me. Jane Goodall spiritualbelieveideas
