The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
RACHEL CARSONThe real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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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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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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