I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals….

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more develo….

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat..

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species..

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before..

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut..

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?.

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of c….

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant..

We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo..

The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons..

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it..

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open tha….

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do….

Are you running away from something?.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a gener….

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman..

Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?.

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment..

I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer..

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons..