Dr Jane Goodall

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It can at times feel like the cycle of negative news is endless, and living in fear can be debilitating, but ethologist and conservationist Dr Jane Goodall, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, is able to turn despair into hope. In this chat, she and Fearne talk about why we might want to be in nature to heal when feeling low, and where science and spirituality can interact.

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide For an Endangered Planet is Jane’s new book, and it’s out now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this podcast is the
0:06.3	antidote to any despair and hopelessness that you might quite
0:10.2	understandably be feeling at the moment. That's my hope anyway. Today, oh, today, a
0:18.0	woman whose capacity to keep hoping is second to none. I am thrilled. I am
0:24.6	honoured. I am tingling with excitement. This week's Happy Place is with Dr. Jane
0:31.2	Goodall. I think we need hope to live when when money came to an end for studying
0:37.7	the chimps. It was about to come to an end. You know, you hope that your grant
0:42.5	proposals or your visits to talk to people. You hope that it's going to lead
0:47.1	the success because you wouldn't bother to do it otherwise. When you're sick and
0:52.2	fighting illness, you hope you're going to get better. So, it will hope is in
0:56.4	almost everything. Jane is of course a world-renowned conservationist and
1:01.8	naturalist. For over 60 years she's been traveling the world, teaching the
1:06.4	rest of us about the threats facing chimpanzees in particular, as well as
1:10.6	urging us to take vital action on behalf of our planet and all the living
1:16.0	things on it. In 1991, she founded Roots and Shoots an Education program that
1:22.1	encourages children to make practical positive changes for people, animals and
1:27.0	our environment. And now she's written The Book of Hope, which I for one, I'm so
1:34.1	incredibly grateful for because I think hope is something that we could all do
1:39.3	with hanging on to right now. It's seriously lacking, but not impossible to have it.
1:54.7	This episode is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro. I've been out
2:16.4	walking listening to lots of music recently. I've been listening to lots of the
2:19.6	Beatles, a firm favorite always, lots of Ludovico and Audi because that
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