Animal Quotes by 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 greatest…

— Dian Fossey

Those bearing the heavy responsibility of caring for captive gorillas should be encouraged to exchange so-called nonbreeders between populations, an inherent process among free-living…

— Dian Fossey

If mountain gorillas are to survive and propagate, far more active conservation measures urgently need to be undertaken. The question remains, is it already…

— Dian Fossey

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

— 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, humanlike scent.…

— Dian Fossey

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs,…

— Dian Fossey

The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by…

— Dian Fossey

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

— Dian Fossey

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

— Dian Fossey

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

— Dian Fossey

There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term…

— Dian Fossey

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a…

— 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…

— 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…

— Dian Fossey

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment…

— Dian Fossey