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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.