Quotes About Dian Fossey

#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. [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

#3. The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it.

Henry Hazlitt

#4. Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words...

Avijeet Das

#5. 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

#6. When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Steven Spielberg

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

Dian Fossey

#8. 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

#9. This is the way a person always gains courage; when he fears a greater danger, he always has the courage to face a lesser one; when he is exceedingly afraid of one danger, it is as if the others did not exist at all.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. [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

#11. Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

Mattie Stepanek

#12. 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

#13. The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

Robert E.Lee

#14. 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

#15. Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Patty Griffin

#16. I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#17. 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

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

Dian Fossey

#19. 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

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

Dian Fossey

#21. If I wasn't compassionate toward myself, no one else would be either. It had to start within.

Julie Flygare

#22. 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

#23. Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

Dorothea Lasky

#24. 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

#25. I have no friends.

Dian Fossey

#26. 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

#27. The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Chris Matthews

#28. 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