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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

Topics: Concentrate Dwell Future Less Life More Past Preservation Realize Value You

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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

Topics: About Basic Behavior Diet Learn More Patterns Processes Range Reproductive Saving Social Species Steps Threatened

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

~Dian Fossey

Topics: About Avoid Dignity Gorilla Learn More People Want You

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

~Dian Fossey

Topics: Animals Get His His Way Man People Today Tomorrow Way Who

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

~Dian Fossey

Topics: Concentrate Dwell Future Life More Past Preservation Realize Value You

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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

Topics: Anticipate Comfortable Feel Going Gorilla More Motivated People Purely Than I Feel I Can

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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

Topics: Almost Altruistic Always Any Appalled Back Civilization Get Little Me Nature Very

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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

Topics: Angel Contact Could Cross Get Group Had Led Over Side Steep Them Uncle Who Whole Wonderful

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I have no friends.

~Dian Fossey

Topics: Friends No Friends

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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

Topics: Ape Arms Eight Enormous Feet Great His Largest Male Mature May More Pounds Six Span Tall Weigh

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: January 16th, 1932

Died: December 26th, 1985

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