"Perhaps the most serious of all the omissions of the mass extermination programs is the failure to take into account the fact that environmental pollution is a two-way street."

"The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities."

"The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind—that, and anger at the heedless and needless destruction of that beauty."

"To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a coastal breeze—this is to know the pulse of life."

"Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is i…"