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It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Rachel Carson

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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Himself Life Nature Place Science World
The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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Choice Ourselves Relationship Togetherness
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
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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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Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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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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Believe Challenge Maturity Myself Nature Ourselves Thinking True
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Attitude Control Nature
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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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent. It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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