Occupation: Marine Biologist Birth: May 27, 1907 Death: April 14, 1964
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forc….
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humi….
If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frig….
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the….
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction..
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place..
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They sh….
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale….
The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted ….
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms th….
the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perha….
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 crea….
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done..
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..
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth..
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging ….
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the wor….
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water..
The Choice, after all, is ours to make..
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods..
Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, th….