My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
Gerald DurrellAnimals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
Gerald DurrellI can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
Gerald DurrellUntil 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.
Gerald Durrell