One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?.

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….

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves..

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished..

In nature nothing exists alone..

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself..

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy..

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts..

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe….

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life..

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would ….

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature..

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the….

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy..

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out ….

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea….

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored..

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of ot….

Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its pres….

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing….

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him..