If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

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

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.

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.

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.