Dian Fossey

“It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.”

“The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to protect them.”

“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it.”

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

“Conservation of the wild places of the earth is the duty of the whole of mankind.”

“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 have no friends. 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 gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.”

“There was no way that I could have spent 10 years with the gorillas and then just abandoned them.”