There are good things to see in the tide pools and there are exciting and interesting thoughts to be generated from the seeing. Every new eye applied to the peep hole which looks out at the world may fish in some new beauty and some new pattern, and the world of the human mind must be enriched by such fishing.

In: Edward F. Ricketts, Jack Calvin, and Joel W. Hedgpeth, Between Pacific Tides, Prefaces (p. xi), Stanford University Press. 1968