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….

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one..

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civiliz….

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done..

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea a….

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms th….

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in….

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction..

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the fl….

Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see..

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged..

By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the ….

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 e….

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster..

The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was t….

Until 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 ….

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature..

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 edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place..

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came ….