A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.