The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

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.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

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

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.

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?