We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

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

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 now to the land, now to the sea.

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 more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.

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.