When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

There is nothing very 'normal' about nature.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.