We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
RACHEL CARSONThere 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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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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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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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.
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