We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“There are really only two ways, it seems to me, in which we can think about our existence here on earth. We… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it --… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Oh, the world needs those standing on the Bridge, For they know how Eternity reaches to earth In the wind that brings… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
…I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“I became totally absorbed into this forest existence. It was an unparalleled period when aloneness was a way of life; a perfect… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When I go back to Gombe it's to be in that timeless world where it's soft and where life is entwined and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The person who has the most influence on me is my mother. Think of life as a flight where we fly higher… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall Copy Share
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
We are always talking about how we can get more environmental and humanitarian education. It is about listening to the voice of young people… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
We started off with physical evolution and got our form. Then we somehow developed language, which meant cultural evolution could race so we could… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. — Jane Goodall Copy Share
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
“We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share
