In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
RACHEL CARSONWonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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.
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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.
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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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