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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson

The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
RACHEL CARSON

Beautiful Believe Live Mind Myself Save Try World
The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
RACHEL CARSON

Age Born Control Existence Men Nature Philosophy
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
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
RACHEL CARSON

Beginning One Liner
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.
RACHEL CARSON

Links Men Past
To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
RACHEL CARSON

Live Past Philosophy Present Promise Remember Understand
Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
RACHEL CARSON

Dream Joy Quality Remember Song
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
RACHEL CARSON

Fiction Literature Science
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
RACHEL CARSON

Change Men Nature
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
RACHEL CARSON

Attitude Control Nature
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
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

Book Leaving Poetry Sea Truth Writing
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
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
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
RACHEL CARSON

Discipline Himself Learning Listening Writing
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

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

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Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

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