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.
RACHEL CARSONEven in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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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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Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life – we are never bored.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
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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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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
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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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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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