It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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
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.
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
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.
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic rondo of sharp pok-pok chestbeats from a great silverbacked male obscured behind what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation.
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.