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…

- Dian Fossey

[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…

- 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…

- Dian Fossey

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,…

- Dian Fossey

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

- Dian Fossey

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

- Dian Fossey

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

- Dian Fossey

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

- Dian Fossey

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

- Dian Fossey