Jane Goodall Quotes

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.