Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSONBeginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of 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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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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.
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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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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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