Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

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.

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.

A hug everyday mixed with just four sweet letters makes life joyful.

These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).