Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSONIt is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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