"Study nature- not books."
-Louis Agassiz

​"One must be enough of a generalist to have some
knowledge of the system as a whole 
-its physics, chemistry, geology, and biology
- to have any real understanding of how it works."
​-John Ryther

"All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child."
-Marie Curie

Water and air,
the two essential fluids
on which all life depends,
have become global garbage cans.
--Jacques Cousteau

"Water quality is
​a far graver problem
in the long run
than is ​water quantity."
​-Arthur Marshall

"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it."
​-Louis Pasteur

"Science and everyday life cannot and should not
​be separated."
​-Rosalind Franklin

“The environment is where we all meet;
where all have a mutual interest;
it is the one thing ​all of us share.”
-Lady Bird Johnson

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement;
the greatest source of visual beauty;
the greatest source of intellectual interest.
It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
--David Attenborough

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.
​What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
--Jane Goodall

“In nature,
nothing ​exists alone.” 
--Rachel Carson

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