"I am not a scientist in a white coat. I am a writer who happens to write about science."

"There was a time when man had a closer communion with the natural world, but now we have become so separated. We have lost our sense of wonder."

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."

"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."