The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
In nature nothing exists alone.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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?
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
It is not half so important to know as to feel.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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.
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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.
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.
...drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter
Many children... delight in the small and inconspicuous.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
