One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space..

Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in ….

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil..

This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits..

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods..

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of ….

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and w….

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea..

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….

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become ….

Those who love and free nature are never alone..

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or th….

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 ….

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no….

Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world….

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life..

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little..

Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the ….

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….

We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risk….

And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed….