But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.