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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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Beautiful Children Excitement World
It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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Challenge Domination Price Right
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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Alone Inspirational Life Mystery Nature Peace
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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Knowing People Speaks Out
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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Beautiful Healing Inspirational Life Nature Night Spring Strength Time Winter
The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
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Environment Man Material Nature Sea
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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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
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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Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
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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Form Invisible Remember
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.
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Believe Environmental Poison
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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Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
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.
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Attitude Destruction Difference Oneself Ourselves See
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.
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Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
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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Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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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Boundary Change Nature Ocean Sea
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Healing Nature Peace Wild

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