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Jane Goodall

Watch on C-Span

• https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=Videos&sort=Newest&personid%5B%5D=44136

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October 2025

Hero, a Voice Supporting a Living Earth

An Activist Scientist, a Life Well Lived -- Jane Goodall

• https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/hope-for-animals-and-their-world/212211

... WHEN I WAS OUT IN THE FOREST DAY AFTER DAY, MONTH AFTER MONTH BY MYSELF I JUST SENSE A GREAT SPIRITUAL POWER AROUND, YOU KNOW? ... LOOKING UP THROUGH THE LEAVES AT THE STARS, THE RAIN COMING, THE CYCLE, THE ENDLESS CYCLES, LIFE AND BIRTH, DEATH, ALL SEEMING TO MAKE IT VERY EASY TO FORGET THE RAT RACE OF THE MODERN WORLD. AND I GOT THIS FEELING THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS QUESTIONING MIND WE'RE ASKING CAN OURSELVES, YOU KNOW, WHY, WHAT'S THE MEANING IN LIFE? AND I BELIEVE THERE'S A SPARK OF THIS DIVINE IN EACH ONE OF US, AND THAT SPARK WE'VE GIVEN A NAME TO, WE CALL IT A SOUL. AND I BELIEVE THAT THIS DIVINE HAS ALL THESE DIFFERENT NAMES AND DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WITH DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, BUT SURELY IT'S THE SAME GREAT SPIRIT ...

THE LONGER YOU CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, THE MORE YOU REALIZE HOW EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED ...

It's All Related

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/It%27s_All_Related

WHY IS IT THAT WE, THIS AMAZINGLY INTELLIGENT SPECIES, HAVE SO DESTROY OUR PLANET AND WE CAN INCLUDE THE WAR AND THE VIOLENCE, THE ETHNIC VIOLENCE AND THE GENOCIDE? WHAT HAS GONE WRONG? I BELIEVE WE HAVE LOST WISDOM. THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WOULD MAKE MAJOR DECISIONS BASED ON HOW THE DECISION WE MAKE TODAY AFFECTS OUR PEOPLE GENERATIONS AHEAD. WE ARE ARE INTENDING TO MAKE ON HOW TO DOES AFFECT ME NOW OR ME AND MY FAMILY NOW, WILL THE NEXT SHAREHOLDERS ME OR MY NEXT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. THAT'S THE KIND OF CRITERIA WE ARE FACING MAJOR DECISIONS ON. AND SO, WE NEED TO RECONNECT, I BELIEVE, THIS INCREDIBLY CLEVER BRAIN WITH THE SEED OF LOVE AND COMPASSION, THE HUMAN HEART. AND THAT'S WHAT I HOPE AND I PRAY ROOTS AND SHOOTS IS DOING. IT IS CREATING FAMILY. IS CREATING YOUNG PEOPLE NOW IN 111 COUNTRIES, NOT 30. 111 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD, ALL AGES, BRINGING THEM TOGETHER, SOMETIMES ELECTRONICALLY, WHENEVER POSSIBLE IN PERSON, SHARING SUCCESSES, DISCUSSING FAILURES. AND ONE YOUNG MAN SAID TO ME, I LOVE ABOUT ROOTS AND SHOOTS BEST IS THAT WHEREVER I GO IN THE WORLD, EVEN IF I KNOW NOBODY, IF I FIND ROOTS AND SHOOTS, I WILL HAVE FOUND MY FAMILY. SO LET'S HOPE THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT VALUES TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS LIFE IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST MAKING MONEY, THAT WE NEED MONEY TO LIVE BUT WE SHOULDN'T LET FOR MONEY, LET'S HOPE THAT THIS GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE, THE NEXT DOCTORS AND LAWYERS AND LEGISLATORS AND PARENTS AND TEACHERS, CAN HELP US ONCE AGAIN ...

I HAVE A QUESTION. IF YOU HAD ONE WISH IN THE WHOLE WORLD, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

IF I HAD ONE WISH AND IF I WAS AS POWERFUL AS GOD OR SOMETHING, I WOULD WANT TO FIND A WAY TO CREEP INTO PEOPLE'S HEARTS TO OPEN UP THE HEARTS SO THAT WE GET BACK OUR WISDOM AND SO WE START THINKING. NOT JUST ABOUT OURSELVES, BUT ABOUT WHAT WE DO AND HOW THAT AFFECTS OTHER PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ANIMALS. THAT'S WHAT I -- I WANT TO FIND A BETTER WAY OF REACHING INTO HEARTS. IT'S DIFFICULT WHEN PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO THINK COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY TO YOURSELF. AND I'VE PRACTICED A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S NOT EASY, SO I WANT TO GET BETTER AT REACHING INTO PEOPLE'S HEARTS ALL OVER THE WORLD ...

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