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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

Rachel 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.
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Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
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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Creation Force Mystery Ocean
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
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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Beautiful Healing Inspirational Life Nature Night Spring Strength Time Winter
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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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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Nation Nature Reality World
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
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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Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
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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Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
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Change Men Nature
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Beautiful Children Excitement World
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.
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Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste
Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World

Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

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