Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
RACHEL CARSONIt is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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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.
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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