Quotes from Jane Goodall

By destroying habitats we force animals into closer contact with people, thus creating situations for pathogens to form new human diseases... animals are hunted, killed, and eaten. They or their body parts are trafficked--along with their pathogens--around the world.

Help people realize that their actions, however small they may seem, will truly make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions can help to save and improve our world for future generations. And why would you bother to take action if you did not truly hope that it would make a difference?

What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?

We must remember that we have not inherited this planet from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children. But we have not been borrowing their future, we have stolen it and we keep stealing it.

Chimpanzees and the other great apes can learn four hundred or more words of American Sign

We developed this ability to communicate with words.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.

There are over seven billion of us today.

Today it is known as Haller Park and is visited by people from around the world, and it serves as a model for other restoration projects.