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?
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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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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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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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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The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth – soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.
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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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It is not half so important to know as to feel.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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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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A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.
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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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I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life – past, present, and future.
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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