Crying wolf is a real danger.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for...

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

I think America has a brilliant future.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted...

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

Throughout America’s young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

It’s better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in...

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which...

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which...

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things – mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

John Wood stood in front of them, and held his revolver, and threatened to shoot the first man who bayoneted these Germans who had surrendered.

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The cheery optimism of our generals always thought we were going forward, and therefore it was not worth while making ourselves comfortable and safe.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they...

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener’s black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.

One always feels that not only should each speaking occasion require a new speech but also for everybody’s sake including my own, a new past.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The spirit of the fighting men, and the driving power behind the armies, depended upon the support of the whole people and their continuing loyalties.

I’ve been to Nepal, but I’d like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don’t think there’s anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Well, I’m having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on...

Among the barbarians as well is the People’s Republic of China with a gulag all of its own – far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

This war will be the last war. It is a war of justice against injustice. When they have finished this time the people will have no more of it.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speaking circuit. It has caught up with me.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they’re liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if...

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth – dead.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.