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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.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Herself Humility Nature Necessary Wonderful
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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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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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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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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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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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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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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