William Beebe quotes

To be a naturalist is better than to be a king. (William Beebe)
The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living. View quote
William Beebe
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. View quote
William Beebe
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get. View quote
William Beebe
These descents of mine beneath the sea seemed to partake of a real cosmic character. First of all there was the complete and utter loneliness and isolation, a feeling wholly unlike the isolation felt when removed from fellow men by mere distance ... . It was a loneliness more akin to a first venture upon the moon or Venus than that from a plane in mid-ocean or a stance on Mount Everest: no whit more wonderful than these feats, but different. View quote
William Beebe