The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
RACHEL CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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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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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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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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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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