A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
RACHEL CARSONThe most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
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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.
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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 Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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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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The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.
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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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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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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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