Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
RACHEL CARSONOnly 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.
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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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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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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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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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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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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.
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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In nature nothing exists alone.
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