41 Quotes by Dian Fossey

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

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 less on past and concentrate more on the conservation of the future.

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

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.

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

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

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.