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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Rachel Carson

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
RACHEL CARSON

Healing Nature Peace Wild
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSON

Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Difference Forget Men Need Survive Victim
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Design Life Live Nature Ocean Science World
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Man Material Nature Sea
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
RACHEL CARSON

Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSON

Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
The 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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Old World
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
RACHEL CARSON

Links Men Past
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Land Long Sea
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 CARSON

Civilization Important Life Man Ourselves True
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
RACHEL CARSON

Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness

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