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Quotes from Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey — Jane Goodall

1934–2025 England

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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.

Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey (2000)

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.

Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jane Goodall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.