Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

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.

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

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

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