The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

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

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 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

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 sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.