“If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.”

—  Gerald Durrell

Introduction to Quest for the Kakapo (1989) by David Butler, p. 6

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