By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
RACHEL CARSONThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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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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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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?
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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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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
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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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