Quote #21

Gerry Durrell was, to use the modern idiom, Magic. You imbibe it in his books, you feel it in his Zoo, you see it in the eyes of his trainees, and you hear it in even the most restrained tones of zoo directors, who may command budgets ten times the size that he ever did.

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  1. My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
  2. If naturalists go to heaven [about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt], I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakap…
  3. There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
  4. Presently, however, we came to a small clearing and there, squatting at the mouth of its burrow was the musician responsible for the ringin…
  5. To say that Gannet City was busy would be an understatement. New York in the rush-hour would appear immobile in comparison. There were gann…
  6. The island [Corfu] lies like a strange, misshapen dagger in the blue Ionian Sea, midway along the Greek and Albanian coastlines. In the pas…
  7. The Mockery Bird regarded him with a roguish eye, head on one side, and took a few slow steps into the clearing. With its head on one side …
  8. 'Air! Air!' croaked Kralefsky, 'Give me air!' 'Interesting,' said Colonel Ribbindane. 'Saw a pygmy like that once in the Congo... been trap…

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