There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madme… - Gerald Durrell

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There is a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but madmen know.

Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i

Gerald Durrell

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Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, most famous for founding what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the Channel Island of Jersey and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting and conservation expeditions. He was the brother of Lawrence Durrell.

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