"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life."
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
"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."
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truly about the sea and leave out the poetry."
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
