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"Until 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. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity."
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
"If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us."
"We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts."
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement."
"There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide."
"The Choice, after all, is ours to make."
"Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development."
"For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end."
"Those who love and free nature are never alone."
"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
"If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."
"I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future."
"Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life."
"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place."
"There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored."
"Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy."
"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."
"It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray."
"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life."