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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

Rachel Carson

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
RACHEL CARSON

Nation Nature Reality World
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
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
RACHEL CARSON

Future Myself Past
As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Great Mother Mother Sea
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
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 CARSON

Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
RACHEL CARSON

Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Childhood Soil Years
Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
RACHEL CARSON

Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
RACHEL CARSON

Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
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 CARSON

Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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 CARSON

Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
RACHEL CARSON

Character Future Human Nature Ourselves Race

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