William Beebe Quotes

• The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

  William Beebe

  Art, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "The Bird: Its Form and Function". Book by William Beebe, 1906.

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• El pantano, para quien se adentra en él con ánimo receptivo, encierra, además de mosquitos y estancamiento, melodía, el misterio de aguas desconocidas y la dulzura de la Naturaleza no perturbada por el hombre.

  William Beebe

  Hombres, Ríos, Agua

  William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

  William Beebe

  Journey, Thinking, Water

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• To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

  William Beebe

  Kings, Science, Naturalist

  Journal, December 31, 1893.

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• When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

  William Beebe

  Ocean, Communication, Sea

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• A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

  William Beebe

  Country, Grateful, Firsts

  William Beebe (2012). “Galapagos: World's End”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

  William Beebe

  Study, Life Worth Living, Wells

  "On Aggression". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1963.

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• ... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where sunlight has no grip upon the dust and rubbish of planetary air, where the blackness of space, the shining planets, comets, suns, and stars must really be closely akin to the world of life as it appears to the eyes of an awed human being, in the open ocean, one half mile down.

  William Beebe

  Stars, Ocean, Eye

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• Earth has few secrets from the birds.

  William Beebe

  Science, Bird, Secret

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• Con el tiempo he aprendido a deambular por los arrecifes de coral, a seis o siete metros bajo el agua, tan despreocupadamente que puedo prestar atención a cosas concretas. Pero después de haber disipado todos mis tontos temores, incluso ahora, con los ojos rebosantes de color, sigo siendo casi inarticulado. Necesitamos todo un nuevo vocabulario, nuevos adjetivos, adecuados para describir los diseños y colores de bajo el mar.

  William Beebe

  Ocean, Silly, Eye

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• Para escribir honestamente y con convicción algo sobre la migración de las aves, uno mismo debería haber migrado. De un modo u otro, deberíamos deshumanizarnos, sentir las plumas en el cuerpo y el viento en las alas, y saber por fin lo que es abandonar la abundancia, la seguridad y la luz del día y ceder a un instinto imperioso, ancestral, que en ese momento parece carecer de razón y objeto.

  William Beebe

  Writing, Wind, Wings

  William Beebe (1954). “A Naturalist's Life of New York”

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• Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

  William Beebe

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Rocks

  William Beebe (1921). “Edge of the Jungle”

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