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

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

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.

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

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

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.