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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.

Rachel Carson

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
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
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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End Environment Ourselves River Work
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
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
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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Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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Future Myself Past
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Beautiful Children Excitement World
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
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.
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Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
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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Himself Life Nature Place Science World
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
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Environment History Myself Nature Past
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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Beautiful Place Sea Strange
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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Heart Life Peace

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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