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.
RACHEL CARSON[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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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.
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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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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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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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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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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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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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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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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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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