Dian Quotes

#1. 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, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps.

Dian Fossey

#2. 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 get over to them.

Dian Fossey

#3. I have no friends.

Dian Fossey

#4. In sanskrit Sarvatra means omnipresent, Esa means God. Thats way i always want

Dian Nafi

#5. I can touch without hand, can reach without move closer then catch without my edge sight

Dian Nafi

#6. 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.

Dian Fossey

#7. 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

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

Dian Fossey

#9. Usually she loved to learn new words, treating them as exciting possessions that she could employ as she chose-in her journal, in her conversation-relishing the newness and beauty of each one.

Gemma Malley

#10. Relative truths can also be absolute.
Relative absolute truths are like two people looking at the same coin, from two different sides, each sees a different truth and presumes they are looking at the same coin, and yet neither side can see the third side.

Caesar J. B. Squitti

#11. Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Paul Davies

#12. He had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

Richard Russo

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

Dian Fossey

#14. You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.

Frederick Lenz

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

Dian Fossey

#16. 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.

Dian Fossey

#17. Sometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from "logic" in reality.

Dian Agung Yogantara

#18. [About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

Dian Fossey

#19. 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.'

Dian Fossey

#20. As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door ...

Dana Gould

#21. Normally a prolonged stare from a gorilla is a threat. But Digit's gaze bore no aggression. He seemed to say: I know. Dian would later write that she believed Digit understood she was sick.

Sy Montgomery

#22. Sweet kiss is as sweet the moonbeams kiss the sea.

N.G. Dian

#23. Scratching my way through minutes that feel like years, and years that have run by me like sand, like waste. But

Lauren Oliver

#24. It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

Dian Fossey

#25. [My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat ... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again

Dian Fossey

#26. Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale.
So does first love. It might not be happy, but it doesn't have always to be sad. It's just love.

Dian Purnomo

#27. Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

Dian Fossey

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

Dian Fossey

#29. The greatest stories are simple, but well told.

Tova Dian Dean

#30. 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, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

#31. Journey gives us a chance to start all over again and be a new personality

Dian Nafi

#32. I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

Arne Glimcher