Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
RACHEL CARSONThere is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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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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