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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 humility.
In nature nothing exists alone.
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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.
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.
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.
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.
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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.
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.
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.
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
