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

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 life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

You wouldn’t know it by looking, but I had no teeth in first grade.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

We must forgive our enemies.

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.