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

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.

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.

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships

Lust. It’s not soft like the touch of a raindrop. It’s not easy like floating aimlessly on the water. It’s weighted, and heavy, a spark that catches on the forest of your body. A wildfire.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.