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

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

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

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

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

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.