A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
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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 in.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.
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Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.
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My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
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The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
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