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.

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

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

[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.

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

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

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