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.

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.

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.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

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.