Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
—Jane Goodall
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. How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility? And what, ultimately, is our human destiny?
—Jane Goodall
Topics: Spirituality
Amazing moments—when you seem to know something beyond what you know and to understand things you don’t understand—can’t be understood in this life.
—Jane Goodall
Topics: Spirituality
Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.
—Jane Goodall
Topics: Vegetarianism
I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
—Jane Goodall
Topics: Spirituality
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- Emma Thompson British Actress, Screenwriter
- E. O. Wilson American Sociobiologist
- Margaret Drabble English Novelist
- A. S. Byatt English Novelist, Poet
- Iris Murdoch British Novelist, Philosopher
- Richard Dawkins British Ethologist, Atheist
- Julie Andrews British Actress, Singer
- Rebecca West English Author
- Charles Darwin British Naturalist
- Ashleigh Brilliant British Cartoonist
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