To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

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

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

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 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.

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.