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

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.

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.

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

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

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

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