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.

First—we must alleviate poverty. If you are living in crippling poverty, you will cut down the last tree to grow food. Or fish the last fish because you're desperate to feed your family. In an urban area you will buy the cheapest food—you do not have the luxury of choosing a more ethically produced product.

Idealism expects everything to be fair or easy or good.

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, famous for its collection of more than six thousand living orchids.

The forces raging around us—greed, corruption, hatred, blind prejudice—are ones we might be foolish to think we can overcome. It's understandable

stand up against it. And even when they lose their lives, their voices still resonate long after they are gone, giving us inspiration and hope—hope in the ultimate goodness of this strange, conflicted human animal that evolved from an apelike creature some six million years ago.

If only we had listened to the scientists studying zootonic diseases who have long warned that such a pandemic was inevitable if we continued to disrespect nature and disrespect animals. But their warnings fell on deaf ears. We didn't listen and now we are paying a terrible price.

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?

The tragedy is that a pandemic such as this one has long been predicted by those studying zootonic diseases. Approximately 75 percent of all new human diseases come from our interactions with animals. COVID-19 is likely one of them. They start when a pathogen, such as a bacteria or virus, spills over from an animal to a human and bonds with a cell in a human. And this may lead to a new disease.

guess the depth of our grief is a reminder of the depth of our love.

She called this network the Wood Wide Web because the trees of a forest are all connected under the ground. And that through this network, trees can receive information about their kinship, their health, and their needs.

What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?

Bulbophyllum echinolabium), which, until recently, was threatened by both overcollection and logging.

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

They actually have brains in each of their eight arms!

Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon and was closely followed by Buzz Aldrin.

An intelligent animal would not destroy its only home—

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.

Societies only seem stable when they are ruled over by an autocratic government.

nature-versus-nurture controversy.

Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light.

school shootings, gang warfare, domestic violence, and racism and sexism. How can you possibly be hopeful for the