We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
RACHEL CARSON
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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.
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I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to ‘know’ as to ‘feel’.
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[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.
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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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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.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
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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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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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 ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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