Dian Fossey

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla the more you want to avoid people.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorillas going to do and theyre purely motivated.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

I have no friends.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it its diet its mating and reproductive processes its range patterns its social behavior.