--- title: "Best Gerald Durrell Quotes" description: "Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British Indi..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gerald-durrell-38192.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gerald-durrell-38192.jpg) # Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) Writer United Kingdom **67** quotes in **317** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Gerald Durrell was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for *My Family and other Animals*. ## Quick Facts About Gerald Durrell Born January 7, 1925 Died January 30, 1995 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Writer Notable works My Family and other Animals Spouse Lee McGeorge Durrell ## About Gerald Durrell Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller. ## Awards & Honors Officer of the Order of the British Empire Goncourt des animaux Order of the Golden Ark ## Quotes by Gerald Durrell · Page 2 > [“The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/the-bear-i-decided-had-got-to-become-mine-the-dogs-and-my-other/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/049/gerald-durrell-9611_animal_the-bear-i-decided-had-got-to-become-min_1744779.png) > [There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/there-is-no-first-world-and-third-world-there-is-only-one-world-for/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Delight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/delight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/gerald-durrell-9611_delight_there-is-no-first-world-and-third-world_724939.png) > [“Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/overflowing-with-the-milk-of-human-kindness-the-family-had-invited/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Family](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/gerald-durrell-9611_family_overflowing-with-the-milk-of-human-kindn_2003110.png) > [My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/my-childhood-in-corfu-shaped-my-life-if-i-had-the-craft-of-merlin-i/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Childhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bd/gerald-durrell-9611_childhood_my-childhood-in-corfu-shaped-my-life-if_673344.png) > [Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/animals-generally-return-the-love-you-lavish-on-them-by-a-swift-bite/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/gerald-durrell-9611_animal_animals-generally-return-the-love-you-la_1388364.png) > [ Gradually the magic of the island \[Corfu\] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/gradually-the-magic-of-the-island-corfu-settled-over-us-as-gently-and/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Gently](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gently/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/505/gerald-durrell-9611_gently_gradually-the-magic-of-the-island-corfu_125853.png) > [Nothing except possibly love and death are of importance, & even the importance of death is somewhat ephemeral, as no one has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/nothing-except-possibly-love-and-death-are-of-importance-even-the/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5e/gerald-durrell-9611_death_nothing-except-possibly-love-and-death-a_2850358.png) > [Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/erosion-desertification-and-pollution-have-become-our-lot-it-is-a/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Bleeding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bleeding/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c99/gerald-durrell-9611_bleeding_erosion-desertification-and-pollution-ha_1989272.png) > [What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/what-fools-we-are-eh-what-fools-sitting-here-in-the-sun-singing-and/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Fool](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fool/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/gerald-durrell-9611_fool_what-fools-we-are-eh-what-fools-sitting_964896.jpg) > [Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/each-day-had-a-tranquility-a-timelessness-about-it-so-that-you-wished/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/gerald-durrell-9611_children_each-day-had-a-tranquility-a-timelessnes_423913.png) > [“The trouble with you hunting blokes is lack of imagination,’ said Larry critically. ‘I supply magnificent ideas – all you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/the-trouble-with-you-hunting-blokes-is-lack-of-imagination-said-larry/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Lack Imagination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lack-imagination/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/gerald-durrell-9611_lack-imagination_the-trouble-with-you-hunting-blokes-is-l_1683990.png) > [“It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/it-was-no-half-hearted-spring-this-the-whole-island-vibrated-with-it/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Corfu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corfu-37961/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/gerald-durrell-9611_corfu_it-was-no-half-hearted-spring-this-the-w_1826485.png) > [“have you heard about the young Hindu virgin from Kutch, who kept two tame snakes in her crutch, she said when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/have-you-heard-about-the-young-hindu-virgin-from-kutch-who-kept-two/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Hinduism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hinduism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e73/gerald-durrell-9611_hinduism_have-you-heard-about-the-young-hindu-vir_2960669.png) > [“the incessant shimmering cries of the cicadas. If the curious, blurring heat haze produced a sound, it would be exactly the strange,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/the-incessant-shimmering-cries-of-the-cicadas-if-the-curious-blurring/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Cicadas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cicadas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/gerald-durrell-9611_cicadas_the-incessant-shimmering-cries-of-the-ci_2522235.png) > [“Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/well-they-re-queer-but-they-re-all-very-old-and-so-they-re-bound-to/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Eccentrics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eccentrics/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/gerald-durrell-9611_eccentrics_well-they-re-queer-but-they-re-all-very_2881546.png) > [“I visualized myself walking proudly through the olive groves, preceded by the dogs, Ulysses, and my two magpies, and trotting at my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/i-visualized-myself-walking-proudly-through-the-olive-groves-preceded/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/203/gerald-durrell-9611_animal_i-visualized-myself-walking-proudly-thro_2090839.png) > [Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/why-keep-in-touch-with-them-that-s-what-i-want-to-know-asked-larry/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Aunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aunt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/gerald-durrell-9611_aunt_why-keep-in-touch-with-them-that-s-what_1408871.jpg) > [You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/you-cannot-begin-to-preserve-any-species-of-animal-unless-you/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c92/gerald-durrell-9611_animal_you-cannot-begin-to-preserve-any-species_2368645.jpg) > [“The noise of drinking was exhilarating. Champagne corks popped and the pale, chrysanthemum-coloured liquid, whispering gleefully with bubbles, hissed into the glasses;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/the-noise-of-drinking-was-exhilarating-champagne-corks-popped-and-the/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Champagne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/champagne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/775/gerald-durrell-9611_champagne_the-noise-of-drinking-was-exhilarating-c_673115.jpg) > [“At the next bend I had a brisk argument with two fat peasant ladies, balancing baskets of fruit on their heads, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/at-the-next-bend-i-had-a-brisk-argument-with-two-fat-peasant-ladies/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Fat Peasant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fat-peasant-2240658/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8df/gerald-durrell-9611_fat-peasant_at-the-next-bend-i-had-a-brisk-argument_1016634.jpg) > [“Breakfast was, on the whole, a leisurely and silent meal, for no member of the family was very talkative at that hour.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/breakfast-was-on-the-whole-a-leisurely-and-silent-meal-for-no-member/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Breakfast](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/breakfast/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/gerald-durrell-9611_breakfast_breakfast-was-on-the-whole-a-leisurely-a_925221.jpg) > [“Japan and Hong Kong are steadily whittling away at the last of the elephants, turning their tusks (so much more elegant left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/japan-and-hong-kong-are-steadily-whittling-away-at-the-last-of-the/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Animal cruelty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal-cruelty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e08/gerald-durrell-9611_animal-cruelty_japan-and-hong-kong-are-steadily-whittli_1607026.png) > [Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/tea-would-arrive-the-cakes-squatting-on-cushions-of-cream-toast-in-a/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Cake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4f/gerald-durrell-9611_cake_tea-would-arrive-the-cakes-squatting-on_1884284.png) > [“So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine...like the blood of a dragon and smooth as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/so-i-went-instead-and-tasted-taki-s-new-white-wine-spiridion-what-a/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Corfu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corfu-37961/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/522/gerald-durrell-9611_corfu_so-i-went-instead-and-tasted-taki-s-new_1223906.png) > [As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/as-i-watched-the-pulsing-fire-among-the-trees-and-heard-the-beat-of/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Africa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/africa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/gerald-durrell-9611_africa_as-i-watched-the-pulsing-fire-among-the_377838.png) > [By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/by-neglecting-our-garden-we-are-storing-up-for-ourselves-in-the-not/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Atomic war](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atomic-war/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56d/gerald-durrell-9611_atomic-war_by-neglecting-our-garden-we-are-storing_3026359.png) > [If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-durrell/if-naturalists-go-to-heaven-about-which-there-is-considerable/) [Gerald Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/) [Doubt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/236/gerald-durrell-9611_doubt_if-naturalists-go-to-heaven-about-which_906554.png) ## Gerald Durrell by topic [Animal (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/gerald-durrell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-durrell/#itemlist", "name": "Gerald Durrell Quotes", "numberOfItems": 27, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. 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