But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
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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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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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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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The 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.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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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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The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.
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Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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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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