As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference