Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
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