Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSONNature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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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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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.
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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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.
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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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 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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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.
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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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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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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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.
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