"Why keep in touch with them? That's what……" — Gerald Durrell
"Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats."
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28 Quotes by Gerald Durrell
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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our…
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures…
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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,…
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or…
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can…
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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…
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with…
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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…
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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…
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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