"It was their individuality combined with the shyness……" — 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 of the great apes."
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18 Quotes by Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey has 18 quotes on this site.
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I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid…
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I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents…
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Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to…
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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…
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[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many…
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I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to…
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[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the…
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I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an…
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When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the…
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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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I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely…
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There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news,…
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More Apes Quotes
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one of 234 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
— Jared Diamond
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