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

‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

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

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

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.