"I am not a scientist in the sense that I wear a white coat and work in a laboratory. I am a writer, and my laboratory is the world around me."

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

"The control of nature is a phrase born of arrogance."

"To understand the life of the sea, we must look to the life of the earth."

"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."