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…

- Gerald Durrell

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

- Gerald Durrell

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…

- Gerald Durrell

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…

- Gerald Durrell

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

- Gerald Durrell

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

- Gerald Durrell

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…

- Gerald Durrell

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

- Gerald Durrell

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

- Gerald Durrell