"Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go."

“God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.”

“Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.”

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“I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.”

“If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.”

“There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.”

“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”

“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”

“By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.”

Source : "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.