Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
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 exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
“It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was looking at… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
“Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.” — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
“The noise of drinking was exhilarating. Champagne corks popped and the pale, chrysanthemum-coloured liquid, whispering gleefully with bubbles, hissed into the glasses; heavy red… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share
