Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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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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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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 control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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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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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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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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