"It's not a pretty picture, but there are…" — Jane Goodall

"It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope."

— Jane Goodall

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138 Quotes by Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers…
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will…
Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we…
I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with…
It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of…
I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She…
Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have…
They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we…

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The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's… — David Attenborough
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms… — Diane Ackerman
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon

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