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.
RACHEL CARSONA child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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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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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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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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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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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