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

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.

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

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

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

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.