In nature nothing exists alone.
RACHEL CARSONThe 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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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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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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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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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
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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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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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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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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 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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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 years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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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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