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?

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 you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance.

Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.