In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSONAs crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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