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It is only a matter for the President to give the order—KILL—the prisons are already overcrowded and this is the only way we are going to be able to protect the remaining gorillas.

— Dian Fossey

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

Fossey's last journal entry before her murder (1985)

I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

an interview with the AP (1985)

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.

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