Gerald Durrell Quotes:
Ocupation: Zookeeper
Life: January 7, 1925 - January 30, 1995
Birthday: January 7
Death: January 30
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.
source: Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf
topic: Men, Fire, Ecosystems, Whole Picture, Tapestry
