"Per tutta risposta Mosè smise di bere quel nettare russo per guardarlo bene in faccia. "Ciao vecchio finocchio", lo salutò. E poi ricominciò a bere … - Gerald Durrell

In fine weather we always had our meals on the veranda at the rickety marble-topped table and it was here that all the major family decisions were taken.

Even in the shade of the olive groves it was not cool

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.