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 CARSONThose who love and free nature are never alone.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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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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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future… Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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