American - Scientist | January 16, 1932 - December 26, 1985
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
Dian Fossey
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When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
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The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
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When you realize the value of all life, you dwell 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.
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I have no friends.
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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.
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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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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.'
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I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
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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.
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