Civilization Quote by Dian Fossey

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

— 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

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

— Andy Serkis

It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

— Katherine Applegate

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor…

— Pat Derby

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

— Thomas Carlyle

As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.

— Andy Serkis

Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near…

— David Sedaris

I hear you are kind to animals, so give that gorilla his face back!..

— Anonymous

The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore…

— Douglas Adams

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

— Anthony Browne

“Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the loch ness…

— Maynard James Keenan