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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

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
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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Nature Old World
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
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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Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
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
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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Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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Greatness Mystery Oneself
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.
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Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
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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Boredom Character Deal Life Oneself Quality Science
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
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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Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
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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Long Lying Progress
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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Beautiful Endurance Life Nature Strength
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself

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