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.
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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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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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[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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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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 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.
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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.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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