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 CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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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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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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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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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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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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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