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His pen squeaking like a demented wren as he wrote copious notes.
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'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.
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I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
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I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing—not unlike friends and wives.
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They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.
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Right in the Heart of the African Jungle a small white man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the friend of all animals.
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Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.
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Many people think conservation is just about saving fluffy animals—what they don't realise is that we are trying to prevent the human race from committing suicide.
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"And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present the famous escape artists, Krafty Kralefsky and his partner, Slithery Stephanides."
"Dear God," said Larry, "who thought of those names?"
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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.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Gerald Durrell
Born:
January 7, 1925
Died:
January 30, 1995
(aged 70)
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