It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
RACHEL CARSONIt is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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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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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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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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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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