Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
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… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one xtrordenry fackt about him that… — 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… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.” — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image