"The long fight to save wild beauty represents humanity's spiritual resistance to the omnipresent ugliness and vulgarity of a materialistic civilization."

"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate lite…"

"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 …"

"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place."

"Are we to stand by while the people of the world are fed into a biological meat grinder? When we poison the air, the water, and the soil, we are poisoning ourselves."