Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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.
If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in, the chances are very high that you will interest other people as well.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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.
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Longer Version:
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, 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.
Longer Version:
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.