Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
RACHEL CARSONThere is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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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 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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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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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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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