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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.

Rachel Carson

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
RACHEL CARSON

Acceptance Demand Goodness Lost Vision
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Alive Children Discover Excitement Family Life Live Motivational Mystery World
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Place Sea Strange
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
RACHEL CARSON

Childhood Soil Years
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Night Ocean Oneself Space Summer
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
RACHEL CARSON

End Environment Ourselves River Work
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 CARSON

Knowing People Speaks Out
Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful See Wonderful Yourself
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Life Protection Seek
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
RACHEL CARSON

Environment Live Mystery Science Sea
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
RACHEL CARSON

Choices Men Thinking
Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
RACHEL CARSON

Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSON

Appearance Choice Herself Nature Reward
When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself – the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.
RACHEL CARSON

Nature Old World
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’.
RACHEL CARSON

Believe Children Parent
[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.
RACHEL CARSON

End Hard Work Myself Possible Satisfaction Simplicity Writing

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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