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.

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.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

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

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 marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

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