Jane van Lawick-Goodall citáty

„Jen když porozumíme, probudí se v nás zájem.
Jen když se v nás probudí zájem, můžeme pomoci.
Jen když pomůžeme, dočkáme se všichni záchrany.“

„Změna se děje nasloucháním a zahájením dialogu s lidmi, kteří dělají něco, čemu nevěříte, že je správné.“

„Zde stojíme, nejchytřejší živočišný druh, který kdy žil. Jak tedy můžeme zničit jedinou planetu, kterou máme?“

„Největší hrozbou pro naši budoucnost je apatie.“

„To, co děláte, má význam, a vy se musíte rozhodnout, jaký přínos chcete vytvořit.“

„Pouze pokud tomu rozumíme, nám na tom může záležet. Jen pokud nám na tom záleží, můžeme pomoci. Pouze pokud pomůžeme, můžeme zachránit.“

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane van Lawick-Goodall: Citáty anglicky

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

“Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?”

“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”

Zdroj: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

“The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.”

“Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs— and the journey to get there— before finally leaving their miserable world, only too often after a painful death.”

Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/

“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”

The Ten Trusts (2003), p. xv

“Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.”

Reported in Yolanda Brooks, Do Animals Have Rights? (2008), p. 23

“Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.”

" An Interview with Jane Goodall https://web.archive.org/web/20100920074838/http://www.idausa.org:80/essays/goodallinterview.html", In Defense of Animals (date unknown) <br class="br">Kontext: Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.

“Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”

Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Zdroj: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”

Zdroj: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”

"Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap", in Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (1996), p. 14

“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”

"The Power of One", Time Magazine (26 August 2002)

“Today it is generally accepted that although the earliest humans probably ate some meat, it was unlikely to have played a major role in their diet. Plants would have been a much more important source of food.”

Zdroj: Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

“The most important thing is to actually think about what you do. To become aware and actually think about the effect of what you do on the environment and on society. That's key, and that underlies everything else.”

Harvest for Hope (2006)

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

As quoted in Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands (2010) by Cathryn Berger Kaye and Philippe Cousteau, p. 14

“We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”

With Love (1999)

“Well, in some ways we’re not successful at all. We’re destroying our home. That’s not a bit successful. Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.”

Subject: Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist http://www.dailysummit.net/says/interview260802.htm, interviewed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet.”

In response to: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Discover Magazine interview with Virginia Morell (28 March 2007)

“I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior.”

"The Power of One", TIME Magazine (26 August 2002) http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003125,00.html

“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”

Frans de Waal, in a NOVA interview, " The Bonobo in All of Us" PBS (1 January 2007) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bonobo-all-us.html; quotes from this interview were for some time misplaced on this page, which probably generated similar misattributions elsewhere, and the misplacement was not discovered until after this quotation had been selected for Quote of the Day, as a quote of Goodall. Corrections were subsequently made here, during the day the quote was posted as QOTD. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Kontext: I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior. This completely changes the perspective, if you start thinking that actually we tap into our biological resources to become moral beings. That gives a completely different view of ourselves than this nasty selfish-gene type view that has been promoted for the last 25 years.

“A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.”

“If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.”

“I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.”

“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.”

“And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.”

Subject: Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist http://www.dailysummit.net/says/interview260802.htm, interviewed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)

“My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.”

Zdroj: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.”

Then & Now: Jane Goodall (2005)