"I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forest and mountains with honey coloured light, …"

"There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in."

"If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished…"

"A sparrow can be as interesting as a bird of paradise, the behaviour of a mouse as interesting as that of a tiger. Ou…"

"The purpose of keeping any collection of wild animals in confinement should be threefold; first, to conduct as comple…"

"Halfway up the slope, guarded by a group of tall, slim, cypress-trees, nestled a small strawberry-pink villa, like so…"

"Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a …"

"We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our …"

"There would be a dreadful outcry if anyone suggested obliterating, say, the Tower of London, and quite rightly so; ye…"

"Right in the Heart of the African Jungle a small white man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that …"