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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.

Rachel Carson

As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSON

Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Knowing People Speaks Out
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSON

End Environment Ourselves River Work
Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Environmental Poison
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
RACHEL CARSON

Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
In nature nothing exists alone.
RACHEL CARSON

Alone Existence Nature
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSON

Childhood Soil Years
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
RACHEL CARSON

Choices Men Thinking
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Autumn Material Ocean Science Sea
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?
RACHEL CARSON

Change Gratitude Motivational Myself See
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Fiction Literature Science
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
RACHEL CARSON

End Hard Work Myself Possible Satisfaction Simplicity Writing
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
RACHEL CARSON

Greatness Mystery Oneself
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing

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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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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