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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.

Rachel Carson

Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
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
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Environmental Poison
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
RACHEL CARSON

Nation Nature Reality World
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
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
RACHEL CARSON

Land Long Sea
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Important Life Man Ourselves True
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
RACHEL CARSON

Creation Force Mystery Ocean
The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
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

Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Parent
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
RACHEL CARSON

Greatness Mystery Oneself
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Children Excitement World

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