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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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Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
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Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
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All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call…
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
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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…
— Gerald Durrell
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If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their…
— Lierre Keith
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By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be…
— Stuart L. Pimm
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Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every…
— Allan Savory
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We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find…
— Allan Savory
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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the…
— Wendell Berry
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Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and…
— John Medina
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that…
— Nadine Gordimer
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I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical…
— Rebecca Solnit
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We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the…
— Terence Smith
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