Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSONThe 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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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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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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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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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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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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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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