Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Carl Safina
Born: 1955 (age 70)
Bio: Carl Safina is author of various books and many other writings about how the ocean is changing, lives of free-living animals, and the human relationship with the natural world.
Known for:
- Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (2015)
- Song for the blue ocean (1998)
- Eye of the Albatross (2002)
- Voyage of the turtle (2006)