A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

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 any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.