They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something..

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protec….

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there wil….

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization..

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus..

A house is not a home until it has a dog..

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and ther….

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small r….

Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have n….

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives..

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will e….

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'..

Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death..

What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste ou….

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen..

By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are d….

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse….

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the….

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things..

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood..

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant..