Dian Fossey

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.”