I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

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

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.

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.'

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.

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 feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.