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..

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..

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 ….

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction..

When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural ….

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself..

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It se….

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception….

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future..

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….

Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of….

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of di….

I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth' -- or the space-age universe, if ….

It is not half so important to know as to feel..

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement..

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all li….

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….

[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you wa….

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves..

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. To utilize them for present needs whil….

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….