It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. - Rachel Carson

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.

In the western world our thinking has for many centuries been dominated by the Jewish-Christian concept of man's relation to nature, in which man is regarded as the master of all the earth's inhabitants. Out of this there easily grew the thought that everything on earth-animate or inanimate, animal, vegetable, or mineral-and indeed the earth itself-had been created expressly for man.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.