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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?

Rachel Carson

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
RACHEL CARSON

Choices Men Thinking
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Healing Inspirational Life Nature Night Spring Strength Time Winter
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Space Spiritual Story
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Links Men Past
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
RACHEL CARSON

Deep Himself Inspirational Man Motivational War
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSON

Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
RACHEL CARSON

Heart Life Peace
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Great Mother Mother Sea
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSON

Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Himself Life Nature Place Science World
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSON

Childhood Soil Years
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
Those who love and free nature are never alone.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Freedom Love Nature
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Place Sea Strange

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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