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We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners.

— Gerald Durrell Two in the Bush (1966)

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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.

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.

Written by Durrell at age ten (1935)

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.

Introduction to Quest for the Kakapo (1989)

The attitude of the average person to the world they live in is completely selfish.

Two in the Bush (1966)

By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own.

Two in the Bush (1966)

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Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.

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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

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We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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