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“Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.”

— Gerald Durrell, from ‘My Family and Other Animals’, originally published in 1956. 

“The sea was like a warm, silk coverlet that moved my body gently to and fro. There were no waves, only this gentle underwater movement, the pulse of the sea, rocking me softly.”

— Gerald Durrell, from ‘My Family and Other Animals’, first published in 1956.