Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

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.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Come now, Pendragon Princess. You didn’t get dressed up to die, we both know that.

When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.