Gerald Durrell
Gerald Durrell
Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBEwas a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter. He founded what are now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Durrell Wildlife Park on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959, but is perhaps best remembered for writing a number of books based on his life as an animal collector and enthusiast. He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth7 January 1925
book ems panic
'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.
knitting wish arguing
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
cake tea rising
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.
voice fire tree
As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.
men animal hart
Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one xtrordenry fackt about him that he is the frind of all animals.
atmosphere produce expected
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
mother uncles cat
Why keep in touch with them? That's what I want to know,' asked Larry despairingly. 'What satisfaction does it give you? They're all either fossilized or mental.' 'Indeed, they're not mental,' said Mother indignantly. 'Nonsense, Mother... Look at Aunt Bertha, keeping flocks of imaginary cats... and there's Great-Uncle Patrick, who wanders about nude and tells complete strangers how he killed whales with a penknife...They're all bats.
mother thinking whales
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.
knowledge ignorant half
I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
islands magic pollen
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
sweet flower rose
Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
zoos sides preservation
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
suicide suicidal erosion
Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
wine glasses singing
What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?