The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery- not over nature but of ourselves.

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him

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

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.