I have no friends.
From Dian Fossey
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less 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.
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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