But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
RACHEL CARSON
RACHEL CARSON
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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 CarsonRachel Carson 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 CarsonRachel Carson 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.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson 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 CarsonRachel Carson Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson 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.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson In nature nothing exists alone.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson Those who love and free nature are never alone.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
Rachel CarsonRachel Carson Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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