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.
RACHEL CARSONFor all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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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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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.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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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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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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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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