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Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey (1999)

de Jane Goodall, Phillip Berman, Phillip L. Berman

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The renowned primatologist shares insights from her personal life.
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Jane Goodall’s Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey isn’t only about her experiences with chimpanzees in Africa, but it also covers her life’s journey. The writer provided glances of her childhood with a love of animals. She wrote about a supportive mother and family members, who were responsible for much of her spiritual growth and development.
Readers learned how she saved money by working odd jobs and as a waitress, so that she could afford to go to Africa to fulfill her childhood dreams. While on that continent she worked with Louis Leaky, and went on digs for fossils. But this paleontologist made it possible for her to go to Gombe to study chimpanzees. Goodall spent years in the wild documenting how these creatures lived. Her greatest discovery was when she witnessed these chimps making, and using tools with stems to get their food.
Goodall with her persistence was able to develop a good working relationship with these animals. Each member in their groups was identified by a name. Unfortunately, the author was unlucky in marriage. Her first husband was a photographer, who documented many of her findings, with whom she had a son called Grub. But this marriage ended in a divorce. She later fell in love with a game warden on an African reservation who she married, but he died not long afterwards from cancer.
Goodall eventually became world famous. She earned a doctorate, and held a position as an associate professor at Sanford University. The author busily travels to give lectures around the world, and to promote the Jane Goodall Institute. She also formed Roots & Shoots for young people from grade school to university level in many countries. These organizations focus on protecting the environment, working to prevent deforestation, and promoting the natural habitats for animals.
  erwinkennythomas | Jan 6, 2023 |
Jane Goodall enchanted me when I first heard her audio tape. She is unofficially the "chimpanzee-woman" who spent many years living with and studying with the wild chimpanzees. From a wide eyed student, she has become a crusader for a ... well, a reason for hope.

For me there was nothing extraordinairly new ... the overindulgence of meat/sugar consumption, corporations/governments controlling our food supply, and the imbalances of the have/have nots. Still there is an underlying wisdom of a woman who has seen and experienced a lot. And sometimes it takes several exposures before I really start to embrace an idea.

Funny the past several weeks I have been feeling cloudy in my head. I suspect that a lot of the feeling is from straying to laziness in my eating habits. So I've cut back on my sushi intake and meat in general. Somewhere during the past couple weeks I have indulged in some Starbucks coffee as well ...

And wow I even closed my WoW (World of Warcraft) account. I just let it expire so that I can find more productive things that playing a computer game 4-6 days a week. Perhaps, I'll return sometime next month for a final run ... or maybe I'll find something else to invest my energies in. ( )
  wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |
I appreciate Jane Goodall as a person. Her work and her life have certainly been remarkable and inspirational. I like the idea that humans are on this earth to fulfill their spiritual and ethical development as a species. There is a lot of food for thought in this book from Jane's own experience. It makes a case for our collective responsibility to mother earth and all creatures great and small.

That said, there are a few things that were mentioned here that annoyed me a little, and I would like to think that they are the fault of the people who abridged this edition. The full description of the crime of the holocaust and the horrors of Auschwitz / Birkenau stands jarringly against a small paragraph about Palestinian children proclaiming their wish to kill Jews and become suicide bombers. The "bad guys" here are all nicely compartmentalized, they are Germans, Arabs and African. Meanwhile Petrol companies like BP are trying to do something for the environment, give me a break.
I do not want to belittle a good book but these two observations made it lose some credibility in my eyes (3 1/2 stars) instead of a full 4. ( )
  moukayedr | Sep 5, 2021 |
I really love optimists; I think they're some of the best people. When you combine optimism with realism, I think you get the very best. That's what Jane Goodall gives us with this book. ( )
  littlebookjockey | Sep 15, 2020 |
I listened to the audio format of this book and had a pleasurable experience. I felt as if the balance between science, memoir, and reflection on spiritual matters had a fairly good balance. This wasn't a grand experience filled with relation and growth for me as a reader, but it was a good look into life, emotion, and feeling of someone I respect very much. Readers who know something of Goodall's life probably won't be surprised by the events mentioned here, but will likely enjoy the glimpse into her life events and the emotions those things brought to her life. ( )
  mirrani | Jun 24, 2017 |
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Die Autobiografie Jane Goodalls ist mehr als nur eine Rückschau auf die Zeit bei den Schimpansen in Gombe. Sie gibt Einblicke in ihr Denken und ihre Überzeugungen, auch jenseits der Primatenforschung; in ihre Spiritualität und in ihr Privatleben, aus dem sie aufschlussreich berichtet und Schicksalsschläge nicht ausklammert. Jane Goodalls Erinnerungen sind ein bewegendes Plädoyer für den Erhalt des Planeten Erde, für Artenvielfalt und für mehr Güte und Mitgefühl im Umgang mit der Kreatur. Sie sind aber auch das Porträt einer faszinierenden Frau, die vor allem Courage besitzt - egal ob sie sich allein nach Afrika einschifft, als tierliebe Schreibkraft den Weg zur modernen Primatologie beschreitet oder in aller Welt die Rechte der engsten Verwandten des Menschen, aber auch der notleidenden afrikanischen Bevölkerung einklagt. Aus ihrem Glauben schöpft Jane Goodall die Kraft, sich von Rückschlägen nicht entmutigen zu lassen. "Grund zur Hoffnung" lautet deshalb der Titel ihrer Lebensberichts und ist gleichsam ihr Lebensmotto. Jane Goodalls Engagement als streitbare Wissenschaftlerin, die einfühlsam, aber energisch ihr Ziel verfolgt, ist beeindruckend, das Faszinierende an ihrer Autobiographie ist aber die Liebe zu den Schimpansen, die aus jeder Zeile spricht.
 

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Herein lies the real hope for our future--we are moving toward the ultimate destiny of our species--a state of compassion and love. (p. 251)
...the uniquely human ability to talk about that which is not present, share events of the distant past, plan for the far-off future, and, most important, discuss ideas, bouncing them back and forth to share the accumulated wisdom of an entire group...to aritculate feelings of awe, feelings that would lead to religious belief... (p.188)
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. (p.266-7)
How sad it would be...if we humans ultimately were to lose all sense of mystery, all sense of awe. If our left brains were utterly to dominate the right so that logic and reason triumphed over intuition and alienated us absolutely from our innermost being, from our hearts, our souls. (p.177)
...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development...were we going to find ways to live in greater harmony with each other and with the natural world? (p.179)
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