Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

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.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.