Fossey Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

Tom Hardy

#3. I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

Judd Nelson

#4. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Babe Ruth

#5. What's highest and best for you is always what's highest and best for everyone around you.

Marie Forleo

#6. If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given to us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.

Cyril Connolly

#7. 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

#8. Story of our species ... everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Michael Crichton

#9. How's motherhood? It is absolutely wonderful. Oh, my gosh. It's truly indescribable and amazing.

Jennie Finch

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

Dian Fossey

#11. 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

#12. [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

#13. 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

#14. Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...

But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.

Emily Carroll

#15. If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#16. I loved junior golf.

Nancy Lopez

#17. 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

#18. Happiness is a choice ... you cannot choose what happens, but you can choose your reaction to it and be Happy.-RVM

R.v.m.

#19. [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

#20. 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

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

Dian Fossey

#22. 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

#23. The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.

Douglas Preston

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

Dian Fossey

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Books are important. They help you sleep at night.

Laura Bush

#28. I have no friends.

Dian Fossey

#29. When you need a lifestyle change due to [health issues], a dietary change is usually the first thing you need to take control of.

Mark Spitz

#30. 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

#31. 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