“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall
“Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”
“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”
“Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference.”
“Children can change the world.”
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
“It’s up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it’s up to you and me.”
“Having respect for animals makes us better humans...”
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
“Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place – or not to bother.”
“Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.”
“Just remember – if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity – and never give up.”
“Your life matters. You can’t live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what’s most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.”
“My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”
“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?”
“My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.”
“As thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
“I don’t care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.”
“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place – or not to bother.”
“To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.”
“Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say “yes” and not think too much about the consequences.”
“The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.”
“We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.”
“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”
“My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.”
“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.”
“I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior – my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.”
“One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference – all the difference in the world!”
“Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference.”
“We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.”
“It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution – and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”
“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”
“Science demands objective factual evidence – proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.”
“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.”
“I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.”
“I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.”
“When I go back to Gombe it’s to be in that timeless world where it’s soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around.”
“People don’t believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they’re making.”
“I wouldn’t even like to begin to define God – I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don’t even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don’t know any other.”
“I was the sort of person who didn’t care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.”
“I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.”
“I think I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it.”
“When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.”
“It’s not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.”
“To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.”
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