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.

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?

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

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.