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.

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

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

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

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

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

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

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

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

True Love Never Can Say Good-bye.My Love for you is Forever

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who've nearly been destroyed.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Hate knows that love is the cure.

Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.