Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSONBy suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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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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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’.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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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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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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.
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