As crude a weapon as a cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
RACHEL CARSONIt is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.
More Rachel Carson Quotes
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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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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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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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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Those who love and free nature are never alone.
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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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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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