Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
RACHEL CARSONFor 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.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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In nature nothing exists alone.
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[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.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.
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To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.
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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
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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?
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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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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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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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