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….

To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything th….

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….

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestli….

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth..

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….

The Choice, after all, is ours to make..

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife..

The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were….

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ….

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective..

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 ….

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal mater….

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been tra….

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is ou….

Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... withou….

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..

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, tak….

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that ….

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and des….