The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology..

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….

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 mee….

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 shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, huma….

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killin….

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,….

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.'.

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

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the….

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

[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were….

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more carin….

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying..

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which hu….

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