Quotes by : Gerald Durrell

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

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....

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books....

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

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled among....

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

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....