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Gerald Durrell has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to…
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…
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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…
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that…
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with…
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
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As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can…
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I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
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The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual…
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is…
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it:…
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and…
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