In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

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.

For all at last returns to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

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 the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

In every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

In every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.