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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

Rachel Carson

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.
RACHEL CARSON

Enough Human Nature Ourselves Talk
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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Earth Day Fabric Of Life Men
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
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Character Future Human Nature Ourselves Race
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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Dangerousousousousous Death History Human Moments Time World
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Nature Perfection Rain Time
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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Experience Live Ourselves Reality Science
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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Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
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Form Invisible Remember
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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Future Myself Peace Silence
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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Change Existence Life Ocean Science Sea
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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Nation Nature Reality World
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Destruction Emotion Existence Humility Lust Wonderful
Only 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.
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Children Development Humanity Kind Life Nature
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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Change Men Nature
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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Challenge Domination Price Right
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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Attention Destruction Focus Ourselves Taste

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