British naturalist and writer (1925–1995)
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He turned a childhood on Corfu into a bestseller, then spent decades proving zoos could be arks instead of cages — breeding endangered species when the rest of the world still thought conservation meant display cases and popcorn.
Born in British India in 1925, Durrell moved to England after his father's death, then spent four years of his childhood on Corfu before the war drove the family back. A 1946 inheritance funded animal-collecting trips to the Cameroons and British Guiana; his wife pushed him to write about the first journey, and The Overloaded Ark sold well enough to launch a writing career. My Family and Other Animals, published in 1956 after an expedition to Argentina and Paraguay, became a bestseller. By the late 1950s he'd shifted focus: he leased land on Jersey in 1959 and opened a zoo built for captive br…
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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.
Firstly what does conservation mean?
We have inherited an incredibly beautiful and complex garden, but the trouble is that we have been appallingly bad gardeners.
The attitude of the average person to the world they live in is completely selfish.
Halfway up the slope, guarded by a group of tall, slim, cypress-trees, nestled a small strawberry-pink villa, like some exotic fruit lying in the greenery.
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