Quotes by : Gerald Durrell

She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in....

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

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

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including....

I shall always attribute my uncertain start in New Zealand to the fact that I was introduced too early....

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will....

It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.'....

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

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge....

We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When....