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

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.

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.

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.

The Saviour is my strength.

You are valuable

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

Either get on the boat or get off the boat.

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

I have a fearless but neutral personality.