Jane Goodall Quotes

There is no planet B. We have to take care of the one we have

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

People think that saving the planet or finding their place in that effort is a really overwhelming thought.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it.

Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

We must give everyone a stake in the World’s environment.

The earth is the only home that any of us have—so far, anyway.