Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
El capitán Nemo me indicó con la mano ese prodigioso amontonamiento de madreperlas, una mina verdaderamente inagotable, pues la fuerza creadora de la naturaleza supera al instinto destructivo del hombre.